The Context
⭕ This is the design I created for The Red Team Analysis Society article [🇬🇧 🇫🇷] titled:
“Uranium for the U.S. Nuclear Renaissance: Meeting Unprecedented Requirements – Part 1”
This design is the Seventh in the Uranium Series, following “Towards a U.S. Nuclear Renaissance?”.
The U.S. has planned for a Nuclear Renaissance. It aims to reach 300 GWe capacity by 2050 for nuclear energy and envisions two scenarios to reach this goal.
Developing the future American fleet of reactors implies facing formidable challenges and uncertainties. Now, the U.S. must also be able to fuel the nuclear renaissance. This means the U.S. will need first to have uranium, which demands mining it, before even thinking about processing it from conversion to fuel fabrication through enrichment.
How do American nuclear objectives translate in terms of uranium requirements? What does that imply?
Will they manage to accomplish this task which appears to be near-impossible considering the short amount of time available and the weight of the logistics, political and geopolitical implications?
The Design
Sisyphus, painted by Titian – another great Renaissance painter, now embodies the task that lies ahead for the United States of America…
The Dantesque task of the USA is in fact twofold and, therefore, the Sisyphus represented is twofold as well. In perfect mirror image -like the Mythological hero, banished to Hell– the two Sisyphi carry a heavy load: one carries the immense quantity of Uranium that the country needs to face the energy challenges of the future…
…and the other embodies the immense burden of the geopolitical responsibility of the USA regarding the drastic decisions that they will have to make to make this achievable…and thus impact the world, for better or for worse.
Will these cursed Gemini, plunged into the hell of urgency, manage to bring their burden to the top of the mountain? And thus, transform it into a roaring volcano of nuclear power?
Will the rays of the American Stripes burst forth like insolent lasers, piercing the skies of Hades? For the star-spangled nuclear symbol can be born from the Forge of rediscovered Power?…
…or will the USA -like the damned character of the legend, like these two Sisyphi– be crushed by the weight of their burdens?
Will they realize too late that their efforts will soon roll at the foot of the mountain of Time that they have just climbed, thus sealing the impossibility of an ever-renewing task? Of an ever-heavier ordeal? And of deadlines that are ever more impossible to meet?…
Will everything have to be started again and again, all the time?
Will they then realize that they have fallen into the infernal trap of lack of anticipation? Will they be locked into an exponential loop of announced failures that will soon seal their destiny for all eternity?
In this case, the eruption of the volcano will not announce the Renaissance of their Energy, but rather the Renaissance of their Sufferings within the furnace of a dark and cold Hell. There, the American Stripes of the energy lasers that they will never produce shall become the bars of their imprisoned Future.
As Sisyphus, imprisoned in the Tartarus.
Summary of the Topic
🔺 Detailed description of the U.S. Uranium Requirements, complete with graphic charts and numbers.
🔺 Focus on the actual USA policy about choosing to purchase rather than to produce uranium.
🔺 Exposing the dependence of USA on foreign companies and foreign supply for uranium.
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Thank you very much for your comment coming from an IT expert, Nouha!
Very interesting article and excellent choice for th Sphinx!!
Splendid as always! And also this showcase the very broad scope of your design skills!
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