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…

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. …

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…

An imagined day in the life of a human somewhere on Earth in the year 2121. — The Ecomodernism movement is growing in popularity worldwide, but what does an Ecomodern future look like? The following is an imagined day in the life of a human somewhere on Earth in the year 2121, if were to implement the ideas of Ecomodernism. I woke to the low hum of…