SHY Nuclear Research Centre

SHY is of course a clever code name for something which prefers to remain unobserved. It could also stand for Secret Holistic Yearnings or Schillerian Halal Yeastless.

SHY Atomic Research Centre, sketch by the artist, 2029

This depiction does not pertain to a hypothetical facility hiding somewhere in the wooded regions of any nation right now accused of illegitimate desires to become part of the precarious world wide system of nuclear attrition. It is more an overall argument for reaching out and understanding between pro life and pro choice (which is admittedly a stretch, but admissible in the authors mind). Since people are patriarchally conditioned to be sun-worshippers and distrust the feminine principle of the nucleus, all nuclear research must be a somewhat shy pursuit. If observed, such a facility would be immediately become subject to intense debate, be criticized, ostracized, vilified, etc. If unobserved, it remains a peaceful, secluded spot for research in shadowy protection, gently humming, radiating benign earth-energy which could be used by a facility to treat diseases in the rheumatoid spectrum, theoretically to be located nearby, if secrecy or shyness would not be an issue.

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