VISSION

Vission  /  est. 2026

A vision for fission.

Cheaper to run. Steadier. Made here. Nuclear is the cleanest, most reliable electricity we know how to make, and America stopped building it. Let's build it again.

What it means for you The ask
The twin containment domes of Diablo Canyon Power Plant on the California coast under a bright blue sky, the Pacific Ocean behind them.
Diablo Canyon, California. Two reactors. About 9% of the state's electricity on roughly 600 acres. Photo: Tracey Adams, CC BY 2.0

01 — At the pump

Your fuel bill follows the news. It doesn't have to.

You can't fill a tank from a reactor. But you can drive on one.

About half of what you pay at the pump is the price of crude oil, set on a world market that moves with every war, embargo and OPEC meeting.1, 2

Electricity is going the same way. When natural gas spiked in 2022, home electric rates rose 11% in one year, mostly from fuel costs at power plants.3

A reactor is different. Fuel is a small share of its cost: double the price of uranium and its electricity costs about a tenth more. At a gas plant, fuel is most of the bill.4

Reactors on stockpiled, made-here fuel. Cars and furnaces on that electricity. A bill that stops following the news from the Gulf.

The pump

½

of the price of gasoline is crude oil

Set on a world market you don't get a vote on.1

The electric bill

+11%

average U.S. home electricity price, 2022

In one year, mostly from fuel costs at power plants.3

Per mile

~⅓

the cost to drive on electricity vs. gasoline

About 5¢ a mile at home rates vs. about 13¢ on gasoline.5

02 — Cleaner than what we burn

Nothing comes out of the stack but steam.

A coal power station with tall chimneys pouring white and grey plumes over a lake at dusk.

Coal & gas

Particulates, sulfur, mercury. Fossil air pollution is linked to on the order of a million early deaths a year worldwide. Gas leaks methane, far stronger than CO₂ over twenty years.6, 7

Photo: Stephan van Helden, CC BY-SA 4.0

Two cooling towers of the Byron nuclear station rise behind a green Illinois cornfield; the plume is pure water vapor.

Nuclear

That plume is water vapor. Byron, Illinois: two reactors on a plot you could walk around before lunch, in farmland that is still farmland.

Photo: Bill Tracey, CC BY 2.0

Counting accidents and air pollution together, nuclear is about as safe per unit of energy as wind and solar, and hundreds of times safer than coal.6 All but one of Texas's reactors ran straight through the February 2021 freeze.8

A gloved hand holds a single small black uranium fuel pellet about the size of a fingertip.
One pellet. About as much energy as a ton of coal.9 NRC, public domain

03 — Made here

Fuel you can stockpile can't be used against you.

Eighteen months of reactor fuel fits in a few trucks and keeps for years. Nobody can embargo it, spike it, or blockade a strait to get at it.

Australia and Canada hold among the largest uranium reserves on Earth, and American enrichment is being rebuilt.10 Stockpiled power is national security.

04 — Datacenters

AI should pay its own power bill.

A large AI campus can draw as much power as a mid-sized city, all day, every day. Plug that into the public grid and everyone's bill goes up.11 The biggest companies in the world have already announced a better pattern.

  • Mar 2024Amazon buys a datacenter campus beside the Susquehanna nuclear plant in Pennsylvania.12
  • Sep 2024Microsoft signs a twenty-year power agreement to restart Three Mile Island Unit 1.13
  • Oct 2024Google orders a fleet of small modular reactors.14
  • Dec 2024Meta asks for proposals for new nuclear capacity.15

If you want to build the future, power it yourself, cleanly, without sending the bill to the family next door.

Aerial view of a sprawling datacenter campus at sunset in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
A datacenter campus in Iowa. Firm power, all night. Chad Davis, CC BY 2.0
Aerial view of Three Mile Island's cooling towers on an island in the Susquehanna River.
Three Mile Island Unit 1. Restart announced for later this decade. formulanone, CC BY-SA 2.0

05 — Three things you've heard

Fair questions. Short answers.

Isn't the waste an unsolvable nightmare?

All the spent fuel from seventy years of American nuclear power would fit on one football field, stacked less than ten yards high. It sits in steel-and-concrete casks you can stand next to.16 The waste from coal and gas goes into the air.

A row of tall white dry-cask storage containers for spent nuclear fuel standing on a concrete pad under a blue sky.

Photo: NRC, CC BY 2.0

Isn't it dangerous? Remember Three Mile Island.

No deaths or injuries were attributed to the Three Mile Island accident.17 Japan's government has attributed one worker's death to radiation from Fukushima.18 Counted per unit of energy, nuclear is about as safe as wind and solar.6

Isn't it too expensive?

America's first new reactors in thirty years cost too much partly because they were the first in thirty years. South Korea builds the same class of plant in well under a decade, each unit cheaper than the last.10 Fleets get cheap. One-offs don't.

07 — The ask

Restart. Build. Get out of the way.

Public support for nuclear is near a record high and rising in both parties.19, 20 The policy is behind the public. Four fixes:

  1. 01

    Restart what we shut down.

    Palisades is being restarted; a Three Mile Island restart is planned.13 Bring back every plant that can come back, and license running plants to 80 years.21

  2. 02

    Build in fleets, not one-offs.

    Order the same design by the dozen, built by the same crews, so the tenth is cheaper than the first.

  3. 03

    Fix the clock.

    The ADVANCE Act of 2024 was a start.22 License a proven design in months, and approve it once for everywhere.

  4. 04

    Make the fuel here.

    Fund domestic enrichment so no adversary holds our fuel supply.

Three workers in hard hats and safety vests talk on the construction site of Vogtle Units 3 and 4 in Georgia.
Vogtle, Georgia: the first new American reactors in a generation. NRC, CC BY 2.0

08 — Tell one person

The power to be free.

Vission is an independent advocacy project. No company, no utility, no sponsor. Just people who looked at the numbers. Send this page to one person who pays a lot at the pump.

Sources

  1. U.S. EIA, "Factors affecting gasoline prices": crude oil is the largest component of the retail price, about half in 2025. eia.gov
  2. U.S. EIA, "What drives crude oil prices?": OPEC decisions, geopolitical events and world demand. eia.gov
  3. U.S. EIA, Today in Energy (2023): average U.S. residential electricity price rose 11% in 2022, to 15.12¢/kWh, driven mainly by power-plant fuel costs. eia.gov
  4. World Nuclear Association, "Economics of Nuclear Power": fuel is a minor share of nuclear generating cost; doubling the uranium price raises generation cost by roughly 10%; for gas plants, fuel can be about 90% of marginal cost. world-nuclear.org
  5. Our arithmetic. Home electricity at about 17¢/kWh (EIA Electric Power Monthly, Table 5.3) and an electric car using about 0.3 kWh per mile gives about 5¢ a mile; gasoline at $3.84 a gallon (AFDC Alternative Fuel Price Report, July 2026) in a 30-mpg car gives about 13¢. Your numbers will differ. eia.gov · afdc.energy.gov
  6. Our World in Data, "What are the safest and cleanest sources of energy?": deaths per TWh including accidents and air pollution; lifecycle emissions by source. ourworldindata.org
  7. IPCC AR5 WG III, Annex III (lifecycle emissions: nuclear 12 g CO₂eq/kWh, coal 820, gas 490) and AR6 WG I (methane's 20-year warming potential). ipcc.ch
  8. FERC and NERC, "The February 2021 Cold Weather Outages in Texas and the South Central United States": one Texas nuclear unit tripped for about three days; the others kept running. ferc.gov
  9. Nuclear Energy Institute, fuel pellet energy equivalence (about 1 ton of coal, 120 gallons of oil). nei.org
  10. World Nuclear Association country profiles: France, Canada (Ontario), Sweden, Finland, United Arab Emirates, South Korea, Japan, Australia; and "Supply of Uranium" for reserves by country. world-nuclear.org
  11. IEA, "Energy and AI" (2025): datacenter electricity demand outlook. iea.org
  12. Talen Energy, announcement of the sale of its Cumulus datacenter campus at the Susquehanna plant to Amazon Web Services, March 2024. world-nuclear-news.org · sec.gov
  13. Constellation Energy, announcement of the Crane Clean Energy Center (Three Mile Island Unit 1 restart) and its 20-year power purchase agreement with Microsoft, September 2024. investors.constellationenergy.com
  14. Google, "New nuclear clean energy agreement with Kairos Power", October 2024. blog.google
  15. Meta, "Accelerating the next wave of nuclear to power AI innovation", December 2024. sustainability.atmeta.com
  16. U.S. Department of Energy, "5 Fast Facts about Spent Nuclear Fuel" (football-field comparison). energy.gov
  17. U.S. NRC, "Backgrounder on the Three Mile Island Accident": no deaths or injuries to plant workers or the nearby community were attributed to the accident. nrc.gov
  18. UNSCEAR 2020/2021 Report on Fukushima health effects. unscear.org
  19. Gallup, "Nuclear Energy Support Near Record High" (2025): 61% of Americans in favor. news.gallup.com
  20. Pew Research Center, "Majority of Americans support more nuclear power in the country" (2024), with support up among both Republicans and Democrats since 2016. pewresearch.org
  21. U.S. NRC, Subsequent License Renewal (operation to 80 years). nrc.gov
  22. ADVANCE Act of 2024, Public Law 118-67. congress.gov

Figures are rounded and written as "about" on purpose; they were current when written in November 2026. Corrections are welcome; a contact channel is coming. See also Legal.