If you didn’t invest in this nuclear equipment provider (NEP) company on March 31, you missed out. Within minutes of the latest news, shares for this NEP started rising, and currently, they are sitting 25 percent above their March 31 price.

Too bad, eh?

Normally, as an investor, I’d feel left out, but today, I’ve got reason to believe that this event is set to happen over and over, each time churning out profits that you can take! But before I tell you the ticker of this NEP company, let me set the scene for the industry that will make these profits possible…

The Nuclear Power Industry — Set to Rise

There are 104 operating nuclear reactors in the U.S. All are creating precious raw energy. But for time’s sake, I want to talk about only 56 of them — namely, the 56 plants that have operating licenses expiring within the next 12 years:

Many of these plants are on the energy-demanding East Coast — needless to say, they can’t just close down. So the plant operators have to take some important and expensive actions to keep these plants up and running. Actions that can and will make this NEP company loads of profit.

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The company I’m recommending will be booking contracts and locking in profits for the next 12 years! Just read what its CEO said about some recent opportunities:

“With electricity demand on the rise, the value of nuclear power technology as the most efficient and environmentally friendly source of energy available today is clearly being reassessed. With our broad range of core competencies in engineering, analysis, manufacturing and testing, we are well positioned to take advantage of additional opportunities for construction projects in the U.S.”

Recently a “major project” announcement has helped push the company’s stock up 25 percent in less than two months — but that’s not where it ends. Remember, there are 56 nuclear plants that may need service or new units built — and this company is the first (and possibly the only one!) in line. Here’s why…

The Complex World of Nuclear Equipment…

Imagine how many hundreds of thousands of components go into a gigantic nuclear plant. This includes everything from wire bundles and circuit boards to valves and switches and massive steel vessels that are the size of a large house.

Really, every nuclear reactor is an incredibly complex system of systems. There is a giant containment dome that isolates a nuclear core. The core is part of a system that heats water. The hot water exchanges heat with another fluid. The heated fluid turns a turbine. The turbine generates electric power. Regulating systems control the power that gets distributed into the outside grid. For all the heat and power, there has to be a way to cool things down on command, as well.

Over time, the nuclear core bombards the nearby metal and equipment with radiation. Plus, the heating and cooling cycles take a toll on equipment and machinery. Thus, the metal in some components becomes brittle. So periodically, equipment and components have to be repaired or replaced. There is nothing fast, easy or cheap about performing work on a nuclear power plant.

All in all, inside a nuclear plant, there is a vast array of shielding and valves and piping and wiring and switches and control units. All of this suffers from wear and tear over time. There is a massive library of technical specifications, training manuals, training and safety systems and much more to make the whole thing run. And every nuclear plant has a small army of highly trained technical personnel, as well as security forces.

So as you can imagine, almost every component of a nuclear plant has to be “certified” in some way or another. That is, anything and everything that is even remotely close to the “nuclear containment” zone must meet the highest level of specifications. This is for safety purposes, of course.

Too bad, eh?

Normally, as an investor, I’d feel left out, but today, I’ve got reason to believe that this event is set to happen over and over, each time churning out profits that you can take! But before I tell you the ticker of this NEP company, let me set the scene for the industry that will make these profits possible…

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The Nuclear Power Industry — Set to Rise

There are 104 operating nuclear reactors in the U.S. All are creating precious raw energy. But for time’s sake, I want to talk about only 56 of them — namely, the 56 plants that have operating licenses expiring within the next 12 years:

Many of these plants are on the energy-demanding East Coast — needless to say, they can’t just close down. So the plant operators have to take some important and expensive actions to keep these plants up and running. Actions that can and will make this NEP company loads of profit.

The company I’m recommending will be booking contracts and locking in profits for the next 12 years! Just read what its CEO said about some recent opportunities:

“With electricity demand on the rise, the value of nuclear power technology as the most efficient and environmentally friendly source of energy available today is clearly being reassessed. With our broad range of core competencies in engineering, analysis, manufacturing and testing, we are well positioned to take advantage of additional opportunities for construction projects in the U.S.”

Recently a “major project” announcement has helped push the company’s stock up 25 percent in less than two months — but that’s not where it ends. Remember, there are 56 nuclear plants that may need service or new units built — and this company is the first (and possibly the only one!) in line. Here’s why…

The Complex World of Nuclear Equipment…

Imagine how many hundreds of thousands of components go into a gigantic nuclear plant. This includes everything from wire bundles and circuit boards to valves and switches and massive steel vessels that are the size of a large house.

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Really, every nuclear reactor is an incredibly complex system of systems. There is a giant containment dome that isolates a nuclear core. The core is part of a system that heats water. The hot water exchanges heat with another fluid. The heated fluid turns a turbine. The turbine generates electric power. Regulating systems control the power that gets distributed into the outside grid. For all the heat and power, there has to be a way to cool things down on command, as well.

Over time, the nuclear core bombards the nearby metal and equipment with radiation. Plus, the heating and cooling cycles take a toll on equipment and machinery. Thus, the metal in some components becomes brittle. So periodically, equipment and components have to be repaired or replaced. There is nothing fast, easy or cheap about performing work on a nuclear power plant.

All in all, inside a nuclear plant, there is a vast array of shielding and valves and piping and wiring and switches and control units. All of this suffers from wear and tear over time. There is a massive library of technical specifications, training manuals, training and safety systems and much more to make the whole thing run. And every nuclear plant has a small army of highly trained technical personnel, as well as security forces.

And both for what you thought I was saying: That nuclear power is The Answer to America’s (or the world’s) energy woes.

But I’d like to remind everyone reading this — pro, con, neutral, apoplectic or apathetic about nuke power — that I freely admitted in the first two parts of this series that I don’t know enough about nuclear energy generation to make an informed decision about its prospects. I never said atomic power was a panacea, or even that I believe it is. I only pointed out some realities about nuclear power generation so far in the United States…

First, that as far as I could discover from a good deal of research time, it has killed or sickened few, if any. Secondly, I reminded readers that the overwhelming majority of Americans favor nuclear energy, a fact that seems not to warrant much mention in the mainstream media’s portrayal of the debate. Also, I put a few numbers to some of the hazardous realities — both to humanity and the environment — of conventional American energy production. A side note on this:

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One less-than-adoring reader observed that if I were to mention the tens of thousands of deaths related to coal mining, then injuries and deaths related to uranium mining should also be pointed out. Of course, I considered this when I wrote Part Two, in which I touched on the dangers of coal mining in my discussion of the human costs of American energy production…

According to my research, uranium mining was only recently resumed in the U.S. after being halted in the early ‘90s. Since its resumption in 2001, domestic uranium mining has been predominantly “open-pit” — which is far less hazardous and manual-labor intensive that conventional underground mining (like for much of our coal). Long story short: I couldn’t find much on the dangers of modern uranium mining in America.

However, this reader’s letter spurred me to some further digging — which led me to some old newspaper stories and other sources indicating that uranium mining in Utah, Colorado and other places in the American Southwest (mostly in the 1940s and ‘50s) may indeed have sickened or killed a number of miners and residents of mining communities. In fact, many of these people and their families have received payments under a 1990 law called the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.

Again, specific numbers were hard to come by — but since I’m nothing if not objective, I felt this was worth mentioning. Also, since the U.S. currently imports more than 80 percent of the uranium used by domestic reactors, the dangers of mining the metallic fuel in Russia, Australia, and other major supplier nations must be considered (finding hard info on this is another matter, however).

Lastly, I must once again thank Whiskey & Gunpowder readers for their voluminous feedback — pro, con and otherwise. Special thanks to the numerous bona-fide experts who wrote in to express support for this series, among them a former U.S. Navy nuclear submariner and numerous active and retired nuclear engineers…

Now, back to the business of neither defending nor exalting American nuclear power generation — but considering it as objectively as I can.

From Ukraine, With Bile…

Always on the tongue-tips of those who’d thwart the spread of nuclear power in America is the 1986 reactor meltdown and explosion at Chernobyl, Ukraine. Of course, this disaster embodied all of our worst fears about nuclear energy — and I, for one, would never try to minimize or understate the horrors those in surrounding territories (especially Belarus) have experienced for the last 22 years because of the accident. I also agree with nuke-power’s harshest critics on one point at least: We’ll likely never know the true extent of the incident’s impact…

However, even the most jaded of nuke-haters would have to grudgingly admit that in the history of nuclear power around the world, Chernobyl has been an anomaly, albeit one of the most terrifying sort. To make an informed assessment of the risks of nuclear power, one must look at the whole picture. That picture includes 31 nations that are generating nuclear power in 439 plants — apparently without significant loss of life or destruction of the environment so far, Chernobyl excepted.