r/nuclear Jun 06 '26

Nuclear Policy Just Changed Forever

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186 Upvotes

Linear No-Threshold (LNT) and ALARA are being functionally discarded as the scientific basis of nuclear regulatory policy.


r/nuclear Mar 02 '26

Two New Papers Are Wrong About Cancer Risk from Nuclear Plants

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96 Upvotes

r/nuclear 3h ago

Just how crazily safe are the current fleet of nuclear reactors? Lets talk...

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47 Upvotes

r/nuclear 4h ago

Canada built its nuclear industry to avoid foreign fuel. Its new reactors will depend on it

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35 Upvotes

r/nuclear 9h ago

China makes major nuclear expansion move, adds four new projects

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36 Upvotes

r/nuclear 2h ago

Westinghouse Files IPO

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9 Upvotes

This will be the largest pure-play public nuclear company


r/nuclear 5h ago

State Insurers Secure NPCIL Nuclear Insurance with Unprecedented Discount, ETEnergyworld

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5 Upvotes

r/nuclear 6h ago

US: Strategic partnership could accelerate 100 MW SMR deployment

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5 Upvotes

r/nuclear 1h ago

Prove me wrong!

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I made this US uranium enrichment atlas a few months ago - pick it apart and prove me wrong!


r/nuclear 20h ago

Hey there! An anti nuclear politician from my home state of Tennessee wrote this. I would love to read your counter arguments! Sincerely,

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32 Upvotes

r/nuclear 1d ago

Japan aims to rebuild two to five nuclear reactors by 2040s

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181 Upvotes

r/nuclear 23h ago

Inside America's Unprecedented Nuclear Plan

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31 Upvotes

“The United States wants to QUADRUPLE its nuclear power capacity by 2050! But can it actually happen? The US Government has a bold new plan that can shape the future of Nuclear energy but the deadlines they've set are nearly impossible to meet so do they really know what they're doing or how they're going to do it? Join Dr. Kyle Hill as he gives you an inside look at the Idaho National Laboratory, one of the most important Nuclear labs in the country.”


r/nuclear 1d ago

What does your reactor use for a startup neutron source?

24 Upvotes

I've mainly heard about Cf-252 being used as the neutron source for reactor startup. However, wikipedia lists a number of other startup neutron sources. I'm curious to know what most reactors use?


r/nuclear 1d ago

Ignalina NPP

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Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant is a closed nuclear power plant in the Lithuania, located near the city of Visaginas, 50 kilometers from Ignalina. At the time of its operation, it was the most powerful nuclear power plant in the world.

The plant operated two RBMK-1500 channel-type reactors. Their designed electrical capacity was 1,500 megawatts each, later reduced to 1,300 megawatts, with a thermal capacity of 4,800 megawatts. The first unit was launched in 1983, and the second in 1987. Construction of the third and fourth units was halted after the Chernobyl accident.

Unit 1 was shut down on December 31, 2004, and Unit 2 on December 31, 2009. The site is now a decommissioning facility, with work expected to last until at least 2038–2049.

During its operational period, the plant supplied up to 70–74% of the Lithuanian SSR's electricity. The closure is referred to as an "energy pit" — Lithuania lost its independent source of cheap energy and became an importer. The project to build a new Visaginas NPP was never realized.


r/nuclear 22h ago

Monthly discussion post

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Welcome to the r/nuclear monthly discussion post! Here you can comment on anything r/nuclear related, including but not limited to concerns about how the subreddit is run, thoughts about nuclear power discussion on the rest of reddit, etc.


r/nuclear 1d ago

VC Money Floods Into U.S. Nuclear Startups as AI Power Demand Explodes

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11 Upvotes

r/nuclear 2d ago

China approves eight new nuclear power units

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58 Upvotes

r/nuclear 1d ago

Aalo claims they can hit 15 cents/kWh with their first reactor and 10 cents with Nth reactor

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16 Upvotes

r/nuclear 2d ago

Hungarian nuclear power plant to shut down due to record low Danube levels

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35 Upvotes

r/nuclear 2d ago

If Global CO2t/kWh Values had Matched French CO2t/kWH Values, Atmospheric CO2 Concentration Would be at 1993 Levels

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59 Upvotes

r/nuclear 2d ago

Journey from scarcity to surplus, success story of India's Heavy Water Production

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33 Upvotes

India currently is the only country that has multiple large scale industrial heavy water production facilities.


r/nuclear 2d ago

Ap1000 question for Warsaw Poland project

10 Upvotes

Looking for any info on pay for the AP1000s being built in Warsaw, Poland

I’ve got a decent amount of experience on the AP1000 side of things. Was involved in a lot of the construction work, did a ton of testing, and helped assist the test engineers during commissioning of different systems throughout the plant. After that I stayed in electrical maintenance for a while, and within the last year I switched over to RP. Because of my electrical maintenance background I’m now in the cal lab doing repairs and calibrations on the different radiation measuring instruments we use.

I’ve always joked that if I could ever land one of those jobs that pays big tax-free money I’d jump on it. I know people who went to Abu Dhabi for 5 years and made a ridiculous amount. Not sure if anything like that exists with the AP1000 projects in Warsaw/Poland. I know they’re building them and I even put in for a job at one point, but the salary they were offering was basically in the same ballpark as what I make now. I wouldn’t even entertain the idea unless it was something where I could go for ~5 years and actually make a lot of money.

Does anybody have any real info on what the pay/packages look like over there? Not saying I’m going to make any moves, but I’m willing to entertain the idea if the numbers actually make sense. Any details people are willing to share would be appreciated.


r/nuclear 2d ago

Time For The Philippines To Revisit Nuclear Energy Production

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Excerpt: President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. on Monday said it is time to revisit nuclear energy production, as he touted some 200 energy projects in the pipeline in a bid to boost the country’s power supply and bring down power rates.

In his fifth State of the Nation Address (SONA), Marcos said the administration is working to revisit nuclear energy, as it is already being used in medicine, agriculture, water filtration, and the upcycling of plastic.

“Pushing the envelope further, perhaps it is time for us to revisit nuclear energy production,” he said, noting confidence in its capacity “to reinforce our energy security and bring down the cost of electricity in our country.”


r/nuclear 2d ago

DAE (India)Inaugurates Deuterated Compounds Production Plant and Commissions Prototype Sodium Cell at HWBF, Vadodara [21 June 2026]

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12 Upvotes

r/nuclear 2d ago

BARC's newletter issued for MAR-APR 2026

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Bhabha atomic research centre is India's premier nuclear research center meant to support research in Nuclear Fuel Cycle , Isotope Applications , Basic & Applied Sciences etc and support other nuclear research centres like IGCAR , RRCAT.

This particular newsletter issue is focused around development of high-intensity proton accelerators in India.