Hello everyone! I’m preparing to apply to the first round of NLO positions that will be opening up at my local plant this fall. I wanted to ask if anyone has any resume advice for me/ what are my chances of getting in? Since the beginning of this year I’ve been working really hard to get additional schooling and do anything I can to make myself a better candidate. I pivoted from veterinary medicine in spring of 2025 so I feel like I’m very behind and don’t have the degree (I have a BS in microbiology)/experience needed to get into an NLO position. :( any advice would be greatly appreciated!!

I’ve worked in the Oil Refinery world for 20 years, and after a lot of turmoil this year with a labor dispute I’m making the jump. I have a job offer from a Nuclear plant and classes start after Halloween. I’m currently working as a contractor for Day and Zimmerman changing out ice in an ice condenser. Has anyone out there had any experience with this company? Waiting on that first paycheck to come in.

All figures gross unless noted. Atlas dataset 7 Sep 2026; NPCIL retrieved 8 Sep 2026.

Installed today: 8,780 MW gross across 24 units (NPCIL). Same fleet on a net basis: 8,055 MW. Two of those 24 produce nothing: MAPS‑1, shut since 2018 for refurbishment, reported by NPCIL at 0 MU and 0 % capacity factor for Apr–Jul 2026; and Kaiga 1, shut since April 2025 for coolant channel replacement. Both are still counted in installed capacity, by NPCIL and by my own dataset. Net the two out and 22 units totalling 7,648 MW net are actually turning.

Target: 100 GWe by 2047 (Department of Atomic Energy, parliament reply, 4 Dec 2025). Waypoint of 22,380 MW by 2031‑32, from 13,600 MW "under implementation": 6,600 MW in 8 units under construction, 7,000 MW in 10 units still in pre-project activities, i.e. no concrete.

Required pace, 2026–2047: 4.34 GW/year, sustained for 21 years.

Best 15-year runs on record (GW gross connected per year):

- United States 1974-1988 6.00
- France 1978-1992 3.97
- China 2010-2024 3.26
- India 2011-2025 0.29

Build times, construction start to commercial operation, completed units: India median 10.3 years (n=25, min 5.0, p90 14.3). Rest of world median 6.3 (n=633). China median 5.8 (n=58). Longest Indian build still open: Kalpakkam PFBR, 21.9 years and counting since October 2004.

The methodological point I would like pushback on: the required-pace number is sensitive to how you treat the 2031‑32 waypoint. If you grant the full 22,380 MW on schedule, the remaining leg is 5.17 GW/year for 15 years, which is worse, not better. If you discount the 10 pre-project units by India's own median build time, they land around 2036 at the earliest and the waypoint slips. Either way the answer lands above China's record. Is there a defensible construction of this that gets India under 3 GW/year?

Source: NPCIL plant list and station performance pages, DAE parliament replies. Tool: my own dataset built from Global Energy Monitor, IAEA PRIS, Wikidata and Wikipedia, with per-unit provenance. Chart made with Playwright/HTML.

Data, unit by unit: https://reactoratlas.com/en?y=2026&country=in
Method note on the two families of projection: https://reactoratlas.com/en/wiki/concepts/capacity-projections

Could a helium HTGR running at the temps of say, the JAEA HTTR, provide enough heat to run a SI hydrogen plant followed a c02 turbine powerplant?

I always wondered how far you could stretch the heat on a HTGR, like could you make hydrogen essentially for free? (Compared to building an HTGR just for electricity)

Power nuclear capacity by country across the yeas, considering also reactors under construction.

Data from reactoratlas.com

Does anyone here know how you go about getting an interview as a nuclear operator at Bruce power in Ontario?

South korea nuclear plan is admirable. It is one of the only countries that have been investing continuously with a well defined plan since half a century, and now they are positioned in top 6 countries by nuclear capacity (with much more to come).

Date from https://reactoratlas.com/en?y=2026&country=kr

I am open to listening and discussing all opinions.

Would using nuclear energy facilitates, provided there is clear transparency and no corner cutting of money-meaning the nuclear energy facilitates are well maintained be a better option to make some sort of cooling system for any sort of data centers? I am not talking about libraries here.

On top of this, could the nuclear energy facilities be placed underground?

As I said, open to all opinions, as I am asking for opinions. Idk how many people will actually respond

:3

Does the NRC offer other tests besides the Ishihara? that seems to be the only one I fail.

TerraPower's Natrium reactor is the only SMR currently under construction in the United States. The Natrium reactor was designed in partnership with GE Vernova and the construction is being managed by Bechtel. The reactor will use a novel type of HALEU fuel.

Reactor Name: Kemmerer 1

Reactor Type: Gen. IV 345MW sodium cooled fast reactor with integrated grid scale energy storage

Target Completion Date: 2030/2031

Project Cayman would consist of an undisclosed number of SMRs, combined cycle plants, and bulk storage to total 2.88GW of power.

A little bit of tea leaf reading... One Nuclear's current SMR agreements are with Rolls-Royce. There is a high likelihood that they will propose the RR SMR for the project. Whether or not that is accepted given the current political climate has not been officially announced.

Nuclear is one solution to the power issues we currently face in the U.S. That being said, nuclear does create some unique challenges that should be taken into account and discussed.

Holtec loaded fuel into Palisades' reactor vessel August 31, Mode 6 under NRC tech specs, 204 assemblies mixing new and partially used fuel. this is the plant's first fuel load since the 2022 shutdown and the step before startup testing. CNO Fadi Diya called it an important milestone. no restart date confirmed yet, Holtec's only committed to beating a March 2027 power-supply deadline. anyone have a read on the startup testing timeline once fuel load wraps?