Criticality

Companies

The advanced fission, fusion and nuclear fuel companies we track. Open roles come from each company's public careers page and refresh throughout the day.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems

Fusion

Commonwealth Fusion Systems is developing tokamak fusion power plants built around high-temperature superconducting magnets. The company is assembling its SPARC demonstration machine in Devens, Massachusetts.

128 open roles →

General Matter

Fuel & isotopes

General Matter is designing, building and operating uranium enrichment services in the United States.

127 open roles →

Radiant

Fission

Radiant is an El Segundo, California startup building mass-produced, portable nuclear microreactors. Its first reactor, Kaleidos, is a 1-megawatt unit designed to be transported where power is needed.

107 open roles →

Valar Atomics

Fission

Valar Atomics is developing factory-made, high-temperature nuclear power for industry, with a pilot plant planned in Utah.

101 open roles →

TerraPower

Fission

TerraPower is a nuclear innovation company in Bellevue, Washington, developing the Natrium sodium-cooled fast reactor and medical isotope production.

98 open roles →

Antares

Fission

Antares is building mass-producible, deployable microreactors for terrestrial, underwater and space applications.

87 open roles →

Oklo

Fission

Oklo is developing compact fast-reactor powerhouses and fuel recycling technology, aiming to sell power directly to customers.

70 open roles →

Helion

Fusion

Helion is a fusion power company based in Everett, Washington, developing pulsed magneto-inertial fusion systems intended to generate electricity directly.

67 open roles →

The Nuclear Company

Fission

The Nuclear Company is focused on developing and delivering a fleet of new large-scale nuclear power plants in the United States.

64 open roles →

Xcimer Energy

Fusion

Xcimer Energy is pursuing inertial fusion energy using a new excimer laser architecture, with the goal of deploying fusion power plants.

53 open roles →

Proxima Fusion

Fusion

Proxima Fusion is a European fusion company developing stellarator power plants. It was spun out of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP).

52 open roles →

Kairos Power

Fission

Kairos Power is developing a fluoride salt-cooled, high-temperature reactor and is building its Hermes demonstration reactor in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

42 open roles →

Fuse

Fusion

Fuse develops pulsed-power technology with the stated mission of accelerating the transition to fusion energy.

41 open roles →

Last Energy

Fission

Last Energy develops small, modular pressurized water reactor power plants intended for industrial and data-center customers.

24 open roles →

Pacific Fusion

Fusion

Pacific Fusion, founded in 2023, is designing and building a pulser-driven inertial fusion system aimed at net facility gain, alongside the components needed for affordable fusion power.

24 open roles →

Standard Nuclear

Fuel & isotopes

Standard Nuclear manufactures nuclear fuel and other core building blocks for advanced reactors.

21 open roles →

Forge Atomics

Fission

Forge Atomics is developing technology to rapidly scale the deployment of nuclear fission.

20 open roles →

Marvel Fusion

Fusion

Marvel Fusion, founded in 2019, is a laser-driven fusion energy company with teams in Munich and Colorado.

15 open roles →

Blue Energy

Fission

Blue Energy aims to build nuclear plants in shipyard-style factories rather than constructing each plant on site from scratch.

14 open roles →

Nusano

Fuel & isotopes

Nusano is a physics company commercializing radioisotope production, stable isotope enrichment and advanced separation technologies.

11 open roles →

Applied Atomics

Fission

Applied Atomics designs, builds and operates nuclear plants alongside the facilities they power, using proven reactor technology.

8 open roles →

Inertia

Fusion

Inertia is commercializing laser-driven inertial fusion, building on the ignition approach pioneered at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

5 open roles →

Deep Fission

Fission

Deep Fission is developing pressurized water reactors placed deep in boreholes, using the surrounding earth for containment.

3 open roles →

Hexium

Fuel & isotopes

Hexium is modernizing atomic vapor laser isotope separation (AVLIS) into a scalable industrial technology for domestic isotope production.

3 open roles →

Tokamak Energy

Fusion

Tokamak Energy is a UK company developing spherical tokamak fusion and high-temperature superconducting magnet technology.

0 open roles →

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