From rewilding to district heating, these kickass concepts offer a glimpse of how nuclear power might shape our lives. — The below concepts were originally developed for my Instagram channel, atomic trends, as part of a series featuring digital artists working in sci-fi, movie and video game design. Concept 1: The Deep Future What will the Deep Future look like? Food. Water. Energy. Minerals. Medicine. Manufactured goods. Many things humans need place a strain on the natural world. And as populations grow…

I started atomic_trends to explore what nuclear power will do for humanity in the coming decades. Here’s how it’s gone so far. — A few months back, I wrote that the old dreams about nuclear power are dead, and it is time to make some new ones. I expanded on this idea in a YouTube video called Imagineering an Atomic Future. Not happy with that, I started working on a Pinterest board, searching…

A clean energy cartoon using imagery generated in Stable Diffusion. —

An example of how DALL·E adds a new layer of reality. — I recently made the case that developers should put community spaces at the heart of future nuclear power projects. I believe this could help break down some of the mystery and stigma surrounding nuclear power. I talked about how, in Iceland, people pay good money to bathe in a geothermal…

Brandon Sanderson’s “The Stormlight Archive” has a lot to teach us about nuclear power. — I’ve always thought of fantasy authors as scientists, their novels giant experiments. When an author writes fantasy, they are creating a universe with its own physical laws, investing it with a believable magic system and filling it with interesting peoples and cultures. …

Why developers should put community spaces at the heart of future nuclear power projects. — There’s talk of a nuclear rennaissance, of nuclear being the energy source of the future. Yet the industry remains shrouded in secrecy. A van with tinted windows pulled to a stop in front of our minibus. The side door slid open and two menacing soldiers in military fatigues jumped out. …

Success isn't about never getting knocked down, it's having the strength and courage to keep getting back up again. Good luck to the Oklo team. The planet needs you.

The work of a San Francisco artist is creating space for reflection and introspection about nuclear technology’s impact on society. — “Radiation is our friend, but it commands our respect…The road will be a long one, for all our nuclear societies, but one worth walking.” — Angel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción I’ve long thought that, above all else, nuclear power suffers from an image problem. No amount of fact-dumping from excitable engineers on…

UN report challenges public perceptions of nuclear energy — and may change how we think about energy forever. — “I give you the magic fire of the atom…an almost endless source of heat…Here we are, burning up our coal and oil only to produce power. But now we have a new source of power: clean, silent, plentiful.” — Walt Disney’s ‘Our Friend the Atom’, 1957. Last week the United…