A SECOND "Doomsday Vault" has just opened in the frozen Arctic wastes of Svalbard in Norway.

The huge storage facility is designed to hold vast amounts of data using a newly devised long-lasting storage method.

5 A view of the Svalbard Seed Bank, which is near the Doomsday Library

5 Like the Seed Vault, the Doomsday Library is buried in the permafrost Credit: AP:Associated Press

It is hoped countries will choose to store digitised versions of their most important books and documents in the vast library, allowing to survive nuclear war or some other grim apocalypse.

If Britain decided to get involved in the project and put a version of the National Archive in the vault, it would mean that copies of The Sun would be preserved for all eternity - so future generations can enjoy a few episodes of Deidre's Ye Olde Photo Casebook.

The facility is called the World Arctic Archive and is based in the same area of Norway as the Global Seed Vault, which is stocked up with seeds to enable humanity to survive if a natural disaster wipes out food supplies.

5 Would you like to see our scoops immortalised for the rest of eternity in a Doomsday Library?

Information will be kept safely inside the second Doomsday Vault using a brand new system which uses film to store the data, rather than unreliable hard drives or other storage mediums.

This technology has been pioneered by a firm called Piql.

"We believe that we can save the data using our technology for a whole 1,000 years," Piql's Katrine Loen Thomsen told the Norwegian national broadcaster NRK.

All the films will be stored deep inside a mine that's frozen in the permafrost, keeping its temperature constant.

5 The vault provides a 'fail safe' insurance against natural disaster or war

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Storing the data on film means it cannot be destroyed by cyberattack.

Svalbard is is also a very safe place for the archive to be kept, because it is effectively a demilitarised zone.

"We can be reasonably confident that no military attack will happen," sid Pål Berg from a Norwegian coal mining firm called SNSK.

Currently, only the countries of Mexico and Brazil have opted to store their national archive, along with Norway's own Song og Fjordane County Council.

"There is a special feeling that I should save my nation's memory on the Arctic island," Eric Cardoso from Mexico's National Archives said.

5 The Seed Bunker, a Noah's Ark which holds plants which are found in various nations across the world

This country's National Archives keep copies of newspapers along with official documents.

If Britain decided to digitise the UK's copyright library, which holds a copy of all books published in Britain, lucky future generations would be able to read all seven instalments of Katie Price's autobiography.

And that's a Norse epic that would inspire anyone to survive the apocalypse.