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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
Jonathan Webb retweeted
My wife's brother spent six years at a Japanese car plant in Kentucky. He was sent to teach the Americans our way of working.
He came home with a notebook. On the cover, in Japanese: "Things I Learned Instead."
Some pages:
"The first day of deer season, half the line takes vacation. HR plans for it every year. Nobody pretends to be sick. They just say 'deer season.'"
"They name the machines. The welding robot on Line 2 is Darlene. Darlene gets a birthday cake."
"When someone's wife has a baby, the whole line signs a card. The card is bigger than the baby."
"A man with thirty years on the line showed me a better way to do my own job. Then he said, 'Don't tell your boss I told you that, boss.'"
"Every Friday, someone brings doughnuts. Nobody is assigned. Somebody always does."
"They thank the janitor by name. Every day. His name is Curtis."
The last page is from his final day.
In our system, anyone can stop the line, but only for a problem. Stopping it is serious.
"On my last day, the line stopped for one minute. There was no problem. They stopped it to shake my hand."
He says it's the only time in six years he was happy to see the line stop.
Jonathan Webb retweeted
One of my nuclear mentors recounts how he arrived at a cornfield in LaSalle County, Illinois and left it with a couple of gigawatts. That was the 1970s.
I wondered if I'd ever get to actually do something like that.
In Lewis County, Kentucky it'll be soybeans to six gigawatts. – at Kentucky, USA
Jonathan Webb retweeted
"@TheNuclearCo has announced plans for “Prosperity One,” a proposed site the company says could eventually host up to #six @WECNuclear AP1000 nuclear #reactors, producing a combined 6.6 gigawatts of #electricity if fully built out." 👀👀👀
wkyt.com/2026/10/21/proposed…
Jonathan Webb retweeted
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!🤠🐂
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…
Jonathan Webb retweeted
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
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
Jonathan Webb retweeted
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
Jonathan Webb retweeted
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
Jonathan Webb retweeted
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
Jonathan Webb retweeted
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! 🇺🇸⚛️
Jonathan Webb retweeted
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.
Jonathan Webb retweeted
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)
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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
Jonathan Webb retweeted
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)
PHP VULNERABILITY | DARIO LONGPOST | SI CONTROL STANDARDS nitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1wxWjlNmQ…
Jonathan Webb retweeted
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!
Jonathan Webb retweeted
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.
Jonathan Webb retweeted
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.
Jonathan Webb retweeted
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…
