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The Nuclear Comeback: How AI Turned the World's Most Unloved Power Source Into Its Most Wanted
After nearly thirty years of decline, the data center has made nuclear power the most wanted asset on the grid. Big Tech is paying on two continents, dead plants are being revived with federal money, and the fuel to run them is the bottleneck. Here is where the money is flowing, and what could still stop it.
17.5% to 9%nuclear's share of world electricity, 1996 to 2024
38 countriessigned on to triple nuclear capacity by 2050
$4.3 billionConstellation's spend to uprate 11 reactors for Google
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Special report
The Nuclear Comeback
How AI Turned the World's Most Unloved Power Source Into Its Most Wanted
AI Stock Movers · October 2026 · 7 sections
What’s inside
- Nuclear's share of world electricity fell for nearly thirty years; AI data centers are the first customer big enough to reverse it
- Big Tech is signing 20-year nuclear contracts on two continents, and the energy company is the one collecting
- Closed reactors in Iowa, Michigan and Pennsylvania are being restarted with federal loans, and four new designs went critical this year
- Fuel and enrichment are the chokepoint: Russian import waivers end at the start of 2028 and most new U.S. capacity arrives after that
- The money tends to flow to five categories: fuel, uprates, restarts, the small reactor supply chain, and utilities that already own reactors
Contents
- How Nuclear Lost Thirty Years
- The Customer That Changed Everything
- Dead Plants Are Coming Back
- Governments Are Racing Too
- The Fuel Is the Chokepoint
- Where the Money Tends to Flow
- What Could Go Wrong, and What to Watch
“In every contract described in this report, the technology company is the one paying, often for decades, and the energy company is the one collecting.”
Facts, sourcedEvery number in the report carries a numbered source you can open yourself (25 in all).
No ticker teaseThe report names no stock and sells nothing. It explains where the money is moving and why.
Read in 11 minutes7 short sections, a what’s-inside summary and a what-to-watch list.