David T Phung

TRISO and HALEU are the backbone of advanced nuclear technology. If America does not produce them, we will depend on fuel from countries we seek to outcompete. To secure America's energy future, we must urgently build a domestic nuclear fuel supply chain focused on TRISO and HALEU. Chapters: I. Wake-Up Call: Lessons from Germany’s energy crisis II. First Principles: What Are TRISO and HALEU? III. America’s Dangerous Dependency: Current U.S. supply chain risks IV. Germany's Lesson, America's C...

Imagine a city with half a million people, about the size of Sacramento, Oslo, or Kyoto. Picture that city running smoothly—lights on, homes heated, schools buzzing, and life moving forward. Now, zoom out. Somewhere in the background, people are dying—not from crime or war, but from electricity.I. The Deaths We Don't SeeWhen we talk about energy, we often focus on megawatts, climate targets, and percentages of the grid. However, we rarely discuss the lives lost due to energy production.