The nuclear fuel chain is a complex grouping of power dynamics that travel along a line
of gnarled perceptibility, weaving in and out of lives, environments, and infrastructures
at different points in time and space. The nuclear waste byproduct of this
entangled nature has become its own site of controversy, financial gain, and history.
This project introduces complexities of the nuclear world's political ecologies through supply chain
mapping.
It looks at knowledge gaps and colonial power dynamics through the use of publicly available
records and
satellite imagery. Finally this project looks at the current
nuclear waste
landscape and proposes a reimagining of the above ground spent nuclear
fuel cask as
the material-semiotic apparatus for the memorialization of nuclear waste.