Jonathan Webb

China is building reactors at an unprecedented pace — but the rest of the world is lagging far behind. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Electricity output is the single best proxy for industrial capacity

China now generates 40% more electricity than the US and EU combined.

China is dominating the worldwide race for power: China now has a record 3.75 terawatts of power generation capacity. That capacity has doubled over the last 8 years. This is nearly 3 TIMES more than the US, which has ~1.30 terawatts of capacity. Furthermore, China has 34 nuclear reactors under construction, more than the next 9 countries combined. Nearly 200 other reactors are planned or proposed. At the same time, there are currently no large commercial nuclear reactors under construction in the US. The US must act now to keep up with China.

Jonathan Webb, The Nuclear Company America built over 100 nuclear reactors between 1960 and 1990. We’ve built just two since then. Nuclear construction didn't just slow. It nearly died. The nation that first split the atom and put men on the moon somehow forgot how to pour concrete and weld steel at scale. Projects that should have taken five years stretched to fifteen. Budgets exploded from billions to tens of billions. The belief that we could build anything, anywhere, at any speed, the faith that defined American industry, evaporated. We built The Nuclear Company to reverse this decline. We’re building an AI-powered deployment platform with technology-enabled systems that will allow our frontline teams to deliver America’s next hundred reactors. The result will be low-cost, resilient, plentiful energy. And we’re doing it by empowering the people who build them. Consider what passes for normal in nuclear construction today. At the Vogtle plant in Georgia, the two reactors built over the last 30 years, more than 10,000 people worked at peak plant construction. Those workers often sat idle. Waiting on parts and materials. Waiting on engineering changes. Waiting on documentation. Just waiting. When documents did arrive (sometimes by wagons or wheelbarrows), the volumes of paperwork lacked specifics. Metal joints misaligned went undetected for weeks, forcing costly and lengthy rework. Workers knew problems were mounting. They could feel it, but they lacked the tools to see patterns fast enough to intervene. One told me: "We knew things were going wrong. We just couldn't see it fast enough to stop it." Our frontline workers are brilliant, but the tools they’ve had can't keep pace. We’re building AI-enabled software that allows workers to command the build, not just survive it. We’re building it for the foreman on site at 4am, not just executives in boardrooms. AI agents trained on tens of thousands of pages of project documents identify problems in hours instead of months. Drones scan construction sites and catch misalignments within a millimeter, alerting workers through earpieces: "Please check that weld." That's giving American workers capabilities they've never had before. This isn't automation replacing workers. It's augmentation elevating them. Kids with high school diplomas, people with two-year degrees. AI will help bring out their irreplaceable talents. We run our company from Middle America. Not New York City or San Francisco. As we build these facilities, we’ll create some of the highest-paying construction jobs in the country and generate tax revenue for communities that need it most. Not for a few years, but for a century. What we need is to make sure that our teammates can do their jobs. That's why we're giving them the tools they deserve, so building America's energy future doesn't break the people building it.

📰@TheNuclearCo has announced a partnership with US steelmaker Nucor to boost construction of gigawatt-scale US #Nuclear reactors, supporting #Trump's orders to quadruple US capacity & build 10 large new reactors in next 5 years.🇺🇸⬆️⚛️🏗️👷🤠🐂🌊🏄#Uranium ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/nuclear-c…

“We can’t just talk about the American spirit and not give our people the technology they need. With Palantir, we are going to do that, and we’re doing it in a way that is gonna completely shock this world.” At AIPCon 8, The Nuclear Company shares how they’re reimagining what a modern construction site can look like, pushing America’s frontline workers to the competitive edge so they can build on-time and on-budget in the safest possible way.

New documentary about nuclear’s role in the AI era just premiered! 600 people attended the screening of “The Nuclear Frontier” in Washington DC.

On Monday night, the world premiere of the new documentary The Nuclear Frontier was held in Washington D.C. The film focuses on the critical need to increase nuclear energy and the advocates working to make it a reality, including Cameco CEO Tim Gitzel.

They said nuclear was dead. They lied. Now, we are on the cusp of an atomic renaissance. I’m thrilled to keynote the launch of The Nuclear Company at the Kennedy Center. “It’s Time to Build Nuclear.” Watch my talk live — link below!

I'm in a nuclear documentary. The Nuclear Frontier explains why we need more nuclear and how to make it happen. It's premiering here at the Kennedy Center in DC in a few minutes. Livestream available in the link below.

Badass to see Miss America 2023 on stage at the premier of The Nuclear Frontier at the Kennedy Center - and hear her stories of going across America telling young people how awesome Nuclear is. This is how we win.

ACC President @ChrisBarnardDL is kicking off the premiere of The Nuclear Frontier at The Kennedy Center with a reindustrialization panel featuring @chairmang, @austinbishop, and Patrick Maloney ⚛️🎬

“We were the freak show.”

The future of America is nuclear energy.

America needs more nuclear. @chairmang of @PalantirTech discusses our tech partnership with @FoxNews. "There's no limit to what we can achieve in this country."

Reindustrialize 2025 📸

Palantir 🤝The Nuclear Company. We are proud to partner with @TheNuclearCo to ensure U.S. dominance in the global nuclear energy race.

New interview with Chief Nuclear Officer of @TheNuclearCo, Joe Klecha: Discussing Palantir x TNC & Nuclear OS “The partnership with @PalantirTech represents where we've been heading as a company, believing that technology could bring another 20% to 30%, and that might be modest, in efficiency savings for these large nuclear projects.” “The driver for our technology is our deployment team, our engineering VP, our procurement VP, our construction VP, our PMO VP, that all have the nuclear project experience. And they're really informing our technology team and the Palantir team on the product we need to be developed.”

I got to interview @TheNuclearJoe over at @TheNuclearCo about his work on the Vogtle build and what it takes to pull of megaprojects. We also discussed how TNC's recent deal with @PalantirTech is going to unleash fleet-scale nuclear builds. Check it: nuclearbarbarians.com/p/no-sleep-til…