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The Context

⭕ This is the design I created for The Red Team Analysis Society article [🇫🇷 🇬🇧] titled:

“Niger: a New Severe Threat for the Future of France’s Nuclear Energy?”

This design is the Fifth in the Uranium Series, following “Revisiting Uranium Supply Security”.

France has lost 47% of its potential uranium reserves.

It happened on June 19, 2024, when Niger has revoked French nuclear state company Orano’s mining permit for the Imouraren mine. It occurred at an era of renewal for nuclear energy starts globally and when France plans to add between 14 and 20 new EPRs to its current nuclear park.

What happened and what is at stake for France?

The Design

Marianne, symbol of France, is shot in plain heart. Right in the Nuclear Heart.

Through the filter of the flag of Niger, its orange disk is now a nuclear reticle that strikes down the French Republic through her breast, piercing it with the cancer of carelessness and lack of anticipation…

Soon, Delacroix’s Marianne, Liberty Leading the People, will be amputated and mutilated… and will no longer guide anyone. Its colors, once fresh and vibrant, are dulled by the loss of its energy and the weakness of its resolution, buried by the insipidness of technocratic mediocrity.

It will be little more than an ectopic museum piece, unsuitable for the energy challenge of tomorrow. One more trophy sacrificed on the altar of the arrogance of the Present and the blindness to the Future…

To harms, citizens,
Disband your battalions,
You won’t march anymore.
The immature
Gloat comes out from our bureaux…

Summary of the Topic

🔻 Detailed timeline of the unfolding of the disaster, starting with the Niger coup of July 26, 2023.

🔻 Detailed analysis of the issues for France and the consequences of the loss of the major Imouraren mine.

🔻 Recontextualization of this loss within global issues and the international race for nuclear energy by 2050.

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The Complete Team

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Designing the Future of French Air Force

🛫 I participated in the Hackathon REDAero organized by the Agence de l’innovation de défense during the Forum Innovation de Défense (French Defense Innovation Forum) which was held last November. The problematic posed by this Hackathon was as follows:

“Imagine a system / process / method allowing the reduction of the energy consumption necessary for the implementation of the take-off of an aircraft.”

The duration of the challenge was 9 hours.

Listen this Article

Listen to the synthesis of this publication and what Alex Karlson and Iris Devocca from “Creative Compass” have to say about it! You may either listen directly this epidode below or access it through Spotify.

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The Team

For copyright and security reasons, the detailed work of each team will not be presented here.

The final Jury was made up of 8 High ranked Officers and innovation specialists from the French Airforce (Armée de l’air et de l’espace)

The 10 people selected for this application were harmoniously divided into 2 teams: 🟠 Orange and 🟢 Green. Among them: Designers, Engineers, Mathematicians, Economists, Energy or Nanotechnology specialists …:

🟠 ✸ Jean-Dominique Lavoix-Carli
🟠 Cécile Fauconnet
🟠 Jöel Agboglo
🟠 Denis Kalantari
🟠 Olivier Landais

🟢 Inès Llorens
🟢 Etienne Afchain
🟢 Pierre Guenoun
🟢 Normand Loviat
🟢 Antoine Plantade

The Work

Each team worked relentlessly according to the field of expertise of each, almost non-stop, in order to constantly brainstorm concepts suitable to meet the Army’s demand.

We were helped in this by the very effective coaching of Quentin Bobinsky, specialist in Design Thinking, who coached us very effectively by proposing very creative and effective methods of reflection and organization.

I must say that I have rarely worked in such a harmonious and complementary team: no ego, no competition, each one rebounded and enriched the ideas of the others with the collective result for only objective.

The Result and the Jury’s reaction

In the end, the 2 teams produced an impressive amount of concepts, ideas, sketches and models which were synthesized in the following 2 projects:

🟠 The Orange Team 🗼 conceptualized an Hub of Acceleration : an architectural structure that uses Wind and Gravity to optimize aircraft takeoff while optimizing aircraft maintenance time.

🟢 The Green Team 🚀 conceptualized a removable and reusable Booster Thruster powered by Hydrogen with particular attention to the reuse of resources.


After the presentation of the 2 projects, it turned out that the 2 teams had won! And I don’t think I go too far to say that the Jury was very satisfied with our collective work!

… And we all celebrated this by tasting a good… ORANGE Juice… 🟠

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   Thank you very much for your comment coming from an IT expert, Nouha!

2. 

   Very interesting article and excellent choice for th Sphinx!!

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   Splendid as always! And also this showcase the very broad scope of your design skills!

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