Six students. Four paying seats. Two pilot seats. One classroom, starting August 10.
When we opened enrollment for NUCLEUS Cohort 1, I didn't know who would show up. I knew the curriculum was solid — built on the same DOE Fundamentals Handbooks that trained reactor operators for decades. What I didn't know was who would see themselves in it.
Six weeks later, I have an answer.
The roster isn't what I expected when I first sketched out this program. It's better.
None of them look like each other. That's the point.
Nuclear doesn't need one kind of student. It needs people who show up curious and stay for the work.
Six students is a small number by any measure. But a physician who spent a career reading data under pressure, a mother and daughter learning reactor theory side by side, and a high schooler who was already ahead of his class — that's not a small signal. That's the exact range of people the nuclear workforce actually needs to reach.
The industry has spent years talking about a pipeline problem. NUCLEUS isn't a talking point. It's six people who decided fifteen weeks of real coursework was worth their Saturday mornings starting August 10.
Enrollment closes August 3. Nine seats remain before we reach our target for this cohort.
Who do you know that belongs in seat number seven?
15 weeks. Instructor-led. A real Carnegie Unit on a real transcript. Cohort 1 starts August 10, 2026 — enrollment closes August 3. Seats are limited.
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