The Nuclear Company plans to deploy a series of gigawatt-scale campuses with fleets of reactors, totaling more than 40 GW. The first step in that journey was announced this morning with Prosperity One in Lewis County, Kentucky

BTW... If U are dismissing this major US #Nuclear reactor build plan as a fantasy project then U are VERY wrong.✖️ I encourage U to browse the @TheNuclearCo's X profile & see the 3 years of dedicated effort they've put in to reach this pivotal moment!🤠🐂

if @TheNuclearCo's proposed project get's built, it would be the largest nuclear site ever developed in the US abundance is directly tied to our ability to harness energy. so breakthroughs in nuclear is one of the biggest indicators of our collective progress

thank you @JonathanWebbKY coming on same day for industry news prosperity one is kentucky's 1st commercial nuclear plant. it's a 6.6 gw campus with up to 6 ap1000 reactors. excited to grow our coverage on nuclear energy attached video from @TheNuclearCo:

The Nuclear Company CEO @JonathanWebbKY reveals why Kentucky coal country beat 1,500 other sites for a massive 6.6 GW nuclear project: "This is our beautiful campus of Prosperity One, about 4,000 acres on the Ohio River." "Growing up in a coal state, seeing a lot of the coal plants shut down, we got a need for power in the region. Behind me, there’s the 765 kV line. It’s the largest transmission line in the country, and it connects us to PJM, which is the entire Northeast. And the Ohio River’s got about six times the amount of water we would need for the reactors." "We’ve looked at about a dozen states, met with governors, and looked at about 1,500 properties. Today’s the day that we’ve officially announced the project to the world." @TheNuclearCo

The Nuclear Company CEO @JonathanWebbKY warns China is winning the nuclear race: "I wanna be clear to everyone in nuclear that might be listening, you’re a friend, you’re an ally. We got one competitor and it’s China, and they’re winning." "This country is gonna build micro, it’s gonna build small, and it’s gonna build large reactors. This site is gonna show the world that we can build big things again, and we can cut costs, we can cut schedule. We won’t compromise on quality or safety." "We will have teams of men and women actively out on this site starting next week doing confirmatory analysis. CSX rail runs to the Port of Norfolk, getting ready for all the materials that’ll be coming in on the rail and on the barge." "We wanna partner with the nuclear community and show the world that not only China can deploy gigawatts of nuclear. We can do it in the US and we’re gonna do it right here in Eastern Kentucky." @TheNuclearCo

This fires me up!!

SIX Westinghouse AP1000 reactors?! The Nuclear Company just announced Prosperity One, a proposed 6.6 GW nuclear campus in Kentucky! This could become the largest nuclear power site in the U.S. and now THAT is the kind of nuclear ambition I love to see! 🇺🇸⚛️

Oh man, I love this. Bring on the gigawatts!

The Nuclear Company is proposing a large nuclear plant in Lewis county in eastern Kentucky (on the Ohio river). The plant would have six AP1000 reactors. They plan to start construction in 2028. This means an NRC licensing period of ~2 years. Given that the AP1000 reactor design is certified, the required licensing will mainly be site evaluations.

Kentucky to be the 36th US state to build a grid-connected nuclear plant, and the first new state to do so, at GW-scale, in over 50 years! 1 - Pennsylvania - Shippingport - 1954 2 - New York - Indian Point - 1956 3 - Illinois - Dresden - 1956 4 - Michigan - Fermi - 1956 5 - Massachusetts - Yankee Rowe - 1957 6 - California - Humboldt Bay - 1960 7 - Wisconsin - LaCrosse - 1963 8 - Connecticut - Haddam Neck - 1964 9 - New Jersey - Oyster Creek - 1964 10 - South Carolina - Robinson - 1967 11 - Florida - Turkey Point - 1967 12 - Alabama - Browns Ferry - 1967 13 - Minnesota - Monticello - 1967 14 - Vermont - Vermont Yankee - 1967 15 - Nebraska - Cooper - 1968 16 - Maryland - Calvert Cliffs - 1968 17 - Virginia - Surry - 1968 18 - Colorado - Fort St. Vrain - 1968 19 - Georgia - Hatch - 1968 20 - Arkansas - ANO - 1968 21 - Maine - Maine Yankee - 1968 22 - Oregon - Trojan - 1970 23 - North Carolina - Brunswick - 1970 24 - Iowa - Duane Arnold - 1970 25 - Tennessee - Sequoyah - 1970 26 - Ohio - Davis Besse - 1970 27 - Washington - Columbia - 1972 28 - Mississippi - Grand Gulf - 1974 29 - Louisiana - Waterford - 1974 30 - Texas - Comanche Peak - 1974 31 - Missouri - Callaway - 1975 32 - Arizona - Palo Verde - 1976 33 - New Hampshire - Seabrook - 1976 34 - Kansas - Wolf Creek - 1977 ... 35 - Wyoming - Kemmerer - 2026 (TerraPower Natrium) ... 36 - Kentucky - Prosperity One - 2028 (Westinghouse AP1000) Who's next? Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia

Good way to end the day. @JonathanWebbKY now live on @MTSlive from Lewis County. To my knowledge at 765 kV this is the highest voltage transmission system to ever appear on Monitoring the Situation (in the background on the mountains, can carry millions of people's worth of power)

Today was day one at Prosperity One. An amazing proposed project with lots of work ahead of us as we continue with detailed site characterization and community engagement. We are all blessed to have the opportunity to move our industry, nation, and this very special community forward. Many will continue not to believe, but we do! Prosperity is the mission. Let’s Build!

Incredible news from @TheNuclearCo. 6.6 GW of big nukes. Outstanding. Last year, I interviewed @TheNuclearJoe, TNC's Chief Nuclear Officer about his experience at Vogtle and building fleet-scale nuclear: nuclearbarbarians.com/p/no-s… This year, I interviewed @TheNuclearCo's founder, @JonathanWebbKY, about TNC's vision: nuclearbarbarians.com/p/the-… On a personal note, this announcement made me brim with brotherly pride. @energybants, TNC's Chief of Staff, is a dear friend. Watching him realize a dream he's had for the decade I've known him fills me with hope and admiration.

The only way we’ve built nuclear at scale & affordably is by building the same reactor again and again. But we’ve forgotten how to do that. Glad to see TNC renewing that playbook. Ambitious to build 6 AP1000s, but if they can apply lessons from Vogtle 3➡️4, this would be huge.

Excited for the new neighbors in KY. FYI - 6 AP1000s require ~750k SWU a year.

Yee-Haw!🤠🐂 @TheNuclearCo Announces Prosperity One, a 6.6 Gigawatt #Nuclear Power Campus in Lewis County, #Kentucky to host up to 6 Westinghouse AP1000 reactors that are anticipated to begin construction in 2028🇺🇸6⃣⚛️⚡️🏗️👷😊#Uranium #EnergySecurity 🌊🏄 prnewswire.com/news-releases…

6.6 GW of new #nuclear - love the ambition. Let's go @TheNuclearCo ! Rooting for you guys. #uranium

Announcing Prosperity One: a proposed 6.6 gigawatt nuclear campus in Lewis County, Kentucky

A proposed supersite of AP1000s has just been announced in Appalachia. The Nuclear Company just revealed plans to build up to six Westinghouse AP1000s on a single site in Lewis County, Kentucky. If all six reactors get built, it would be the largest nuclear site ever developed in the U.S. If the reactors are built in pairs, this would be the closest America has come to copying China’s recipe for nuclear success. My team and I have spent the past year studying China’s nuclear program through Chinese primary sources, and there’s a clear pattern to their builds: - 6 reactors planned per site built two at a time; - Using a standard design they repeat over and over; - With the same crews moving from one pair to the next. Although a frozen reactor design is nice, nothing gets you more standardization than building on the same spot with the same team. The site appears to sit along a major 765 kV transmission line in the Ohio River corridor (not a coincidence, I'm sure). But a full 6.6 GW will almost certainly need grid upgrades including additional outbound transmission. This is a proposed project, not a done deal. And we're far enough out from Vogtle that building these reactors will require significant workforce training, standing up of supply chains, and coordination across many parties. But oh boy, would be massive if The Nuclear Company pulls this off.

People talk about making nuclear reactors small so you can build thousands of them But really we need thousands of big reactors.