As America Looks to Greater Heights and a Brighter Future, Nuclear is the Key to US Reindustrialization.

Once left abandoned, the glamorous Michigan Central Station has since been restored and reopened to the public as a historic site, marking the city’s impressive revitalization.

Few cities tell the story of America better than Detroit, Michigan. At one time, manufacturing and industry made the city the wealthiest in the world. From the glamorous Detroit Railway Station to the Fisher Theatre, these relics that still stand today are testament to the city’s gilded history. 

Nothing is more important than reindustrialization to Lake Dodson, Earthineering’s Business Development Associate. In June, he went to Detroit for the Reindustrialize Summit 3.0: a truly stratospheric event about how American technology will revitalize our manufacturing, and along with it, the city of Detroit that has since lost so much. 

At Reindustrialize 3.0, Lake remarked that “American reindustrialization is happening quickly across the nation, comprehensively across all major industries, and assuredly as both private and public sources are aligned to build advanced domestic manufacturing. This push demands a great deal of power. Nuclear power is able to produce the massive amount of electricity needed for this revolution, but industrial heat is needed just as much.”

America continues to debate and argue about whether our industrial supremacy collapsed. But rather than litigating the mistakes and downfalls of the past, America should look to a brighter future. How can our country create a new, reindustrialized future that uplifts millions of Americans?

Detroit’s historic success tells the story of America’s rise, yet it also undoubtedly reveals the story of decline across too many American cities. Just as the rise of industry built our gilded cities, its fall brought economic deprivation and devastation to millions. Some cities like Detroit have certainly made a comeback, but poverty remains a significant challenge for the towns, communities, and cities that built America.

Although too much of Detroit’s history now sits abandoned, plenty of the city’s historic sites still remain active. The Rouge Factory, where Henry Ford revolutionized the modern conveyor belt, still produces 600 to 1300 Ford F-150s everyday. A visit to Detroit today shows a city coming back, but also a city that once was. Detroit has lost much, but it has the bones of a great industrial city, and it will return to being one. 

The floor of the Rouge Factory, where Henry Ford revolutionized the conveyor belt and where the Ford F-150 is produced today.

Because our reactor will produce high quality process heat, it is uniquely positioned to restart cities like Detroit and American manufacturing. Nuclear energy is able to produce the massive amount of electricity needed for industrial revitalization, but industrial heat is just as needed. Whether it be making synthetic fuels or processing critical minerals in America, or smelting regolith on the Moon, The Earthineering Company is producing the industrial heat needed to win.

Rare earth element processing is a great example of one way our reactor will restart American industry. Although America is home to numerous rare earth element deposits, the processing—the dirty, energy and labor intensive method in which raw minerals turn into the device you’re using to read this article—has been outsourced abroad along with the rest of our industry. Our reactor will make the rare earth element processing cheaper, cleaner and faster than before. Not only can rare earth element onshoring bring jobs back to America, but it will also reduce American dependency on other countries for the advanced batteries, lightweight electric motors and defense technology that are critical for our future. Reindustrialization is therefore not only about economic productivity, but also about American national security. 

The Earthineering Company is reimagining what is possible and is not only building our nuclear future, but we will also empower America’s workers. Our mission is believing in American fortitude, and our efforts are safeguarding our nation’s prosperity. “In order to see the next generation of growth, we must reindustrialize advanced core tech to keep up with the industrial “software” that has built our nation,” remarked Dodson. As cities like Detroit hope to restore their former glory, our reactor will power not just future manufacturing, but American dreams.