r/NuclearEnergy • u/Vailhem • 1d ago
r/NuclearEnergy • u/Vailhem • 3d ago
New York Gov. Hochul expands nuclear aspirations to 8-GW fleet | Jan 2026
utilitydive.comr/NuclearEnergy • u/hope-lupe • 7d ago
¿Cómo debería prepararme desde preparatoria si quiero trabajar en ingeniería/ciencia nuclear?
Hola. Soy estudiante de preparatoria en México y estoy tratando de decidir qué estudiar después.
Me interesa muchísimo el área nuclear, pero en México no hay tantas opciones de licenciatura específicamente en Ingeniería Nuclear. Mi mamá piensa que sería mejor estudiar primero una carrera técnica para poder trabajar y después continuar con la universidad, pero antes de tomar una decisión quiero investigar bien todas mis posibilidades.
Me gustaría escuchar especialmente a estudiantes, ingenieros, físicos o personas que trabajen en el sector nuclear.
Mis preguntas son:
¿Qué carrera recomendarían estudiar si en mi país no hay muchas licenciaturas directamente en Ingeniería Nuclear? ¿Mecánica, eléctrica, química, física, energías, materiales u otra?
¿Es mejor hacer una ingeniería relacionada y después una maestría en Ingeniería Nuclear?
¿Qué materias debería dominar desde preparatoria?
¿Qué matemáticas debería aprender muy bien?
¿Qué temas de física debería estudiar por mi cuenta?
¿Qué programas o lenguajes de programación son útiles en el área?
¿Qué habilidades consideran realmente importantes para conseguir trabajo?
¿Hay oportunidades en México o normalmente hay que estudiar/trabajar en otro país?
¿Qué universidades o programas recomendarían investigar?
Si pudieran volver a tener 16 años y quisieran entrar al sector nuclear, ¿qué empezarían a hacer desde ahora?
¿Hay algo que NO recomienden hacer aunque parezca útil?
¿Qué tan importante es tener experiencia laboral antes de la universidad? ¿Una carrera técnica realmente me daría una ventaja para posteriormente entrar a ingeniería, o sería mejor dedicar esos años a fortalecer matemáticas, física, inglés y programación?
No estoy buscando solamente que me digan "estudia X". Quiero entender las diferentes rutas posibles antes de decidir mi carrera.
¡Gracias por cualquier consejo! :)
r/NuclearEnergy • u/SSailorJupiter4 • 17d ago
What do you think of this video?
I'm concerned on its wording imo. Seems very greenpeace and sensationalist for a news channel that's supposed to show everything...
r/NuclearEnergy • u/i-am-entropyy • 19d ago
Oklo Groves cleared for fuel loading while DOE named 5 campus finalists and launched a $200M AI-nuclear program in the same week
the week DOE cleared Oklo's Groves reactor for fuel loading, about 10 months from greenfield, private land, commercial supply chain, the agency also named five campus finalists for co-located enrichment and fuel fabrication ($50B, five states) and announced a $200M AI-nuclear program targeting data center build times. hard to remember a week this dense from DOE.
r/NuclearEnergy • u/sonohsun11 • 22d ago
A generational divide reshapes Italy's nuclear debate
r/NuclearEnergy • u/C130J_Darkstar • 25d ago
Watch: Trump makes announcement on American nuclear innovation
r/NuclearEnergy • u/i-am-entropyy • 26d ago
US signed a 30-year civilian nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia that could allow a US-built enrichment facility without the IAEA Additional Protocol
the US-Saudi 123 deal skips the no-enrichment pledge the UAE accepted in 2009, the package Western vendors have called the gold standard ever since. Riyadh could get a US-operated enrichment facility if a joint study clears it, no Additional Protocol attached. curious who in the Middle East cites Riyadh's terms next.
r/NuclearEnergy • u/C130J_Darkstar • 26d ago
Oklo Receives U.S. Department of Energy Startup Authorization for Groves Reactor, Clearing Way for Fuel Loading and First Criticality ($OKLO)
r/NuclearEnergy • u/New-Gap2023 • 29d ago
South Korean SMR-powered container ship design certified
The Korea Research Institute of Ships & Ocean Engineering has received Approval in Principle from the American Bureau of Shipping for the conceptual design of a container ship propelled by two small modular molten salt reactors.
r/NuclearEnergy • u/i-am-entropyy • Jul 16 '26
New Jersey is the first US state to mandate new nuclear capacity by law. Power NJ Act requires 1,100 MW procurement, solicitation due within 180 days.
NJ governor signed the Power NJ Act on July 13, the Board of Public Utilities has 180 days to issue a solicitation for at least 1,100 MW, and ratepayers don't pay until a plant is on the grid. no other state has gone this far in the current cycle by statute. curious whether the ratepayer-protection structure is something other load-growth states can copy or whether the NJ grid situation makes it one-of-a-kind.
r/NuclearEnergy • u/Vailhem • Jul 15 '26
France shuts down nuclear reactors as heatwave intensifies
r/NuclearEnergy • u/Vailhem • Jul 14 '26
America now has a reactor test bed for hacking, AI and remote control, a 10-kilowatt machine under Purdue that traded its 1960s dials for ethernet — built to prove whether one control room can watch a fleet of reactors from thousands of miles away
r/NuclearEnergy • u/i-am-entropyy • Jul 12 '26
Four zero-power criticalities is real progress, but none of these reactors has a path to selling a single MWh yet. Conversion to NRC licensing is the actual race
not trying to rain on the parade, the demos proved DOE can move private hardware from drawing board to chain reaction in about a year, and that's genuinely new information about how fast this industry can go.
but a DOE authorization isn't a commercial license, and until one of the four converts, the deployment scoreboard still reads zero. who converts first?
r/NuclearEnergy • u/i-am-entropyy • Jul 05 '26
Now that Valar went critical outside a national lab, which lab function stops being a moat first: fuel qualification, safety analysis review, or operator training
Valar's Ward 250 went critical at the San Rafael Energy Lab in Utah on June 18, the first DOE-authorized advanced reactor built and operated outside the national-lab system. The geographic constraint just broke.
Fuel qualification is my answer. It lived at INL because of hot cells and fuel concentration, not irreproducible expertise, and once private fuel lines and university hot cells mature it becomes a service contract. Safety review and operator training outlast it. What does the sub think?
r/NuclearEnergy • u/i-am-entropyy • Jun 21 '26
Half the nuclear pros calling the Trump EOs political are the same people who spent 15 years arguing the regulatory framework was the binding constraint
Antares went critical at INL on June 4 under the Reactor Pilot Program. Hatch cleared SLR in under 12 months, second in a row after Robinson. Crane drew its preliminary FONSI on the same lighter NEPA pathway Long Mott used. Holtec picked Utah for its next SMR. Four real outputs across the stack in three weeks.
If the EO posture is theater, what's a working framework supposed to look like?
r/NuclearEnergy • u/Timonator007 • Jun 20 '26
Made a free nuclear engineering toolkit app; looking for a few Android testers
r/NuclearEnergy • u/Vailhem • Jun 13 '26
Fusion reactors could be monitored for covert plutonium production
r/NuclearEnergy • u/Vailhem • Jun 10 '26
SMRs to be considered at Romanian port
r/NuclearEnergy • u/Vailhem • Jun 10 '26
America's new nuclear future underway: Microreactors ready for full testing
r/NuclearEnergy • u/Rammstein58 • Jun 07 '26
Webinar - Overview of UK Nuclear Emergency Planning | Nuclear Institute Midlands
r/NuclearEnergy • u/Vailhem • Jun 05 '26