Daniele Gaglianone

Italy | 2014 | 68’ | Documentary. Director: Daniele Gaglianone, Cristina Monti and Paolo Rapalino | Producer: Paola Ciafardoni. Original Language: Italian | Subtitled Language English Synopsis: Saluggia, a small rural village 40 km from Turin, is where the majority of waste generated by Italian nuclear power stations is stored. In an area close to the banks of the river Dora Baltea, among the main tributaries of the Po, it is bordered by irrigation channels that carry water to the rice fields of Vercelli, and crossed by the aquifer that feeds the Monferrato aqueduct. This triangle of water, beginning in the 1950s, has seen the construction of a nuclear  research centre, an experimental reactor and a reprocessing plant in which techniques have been...