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Barclays Maintains Bullish Stance On Nuclear

Zero Rss
3 months 1 week ago
Barclays Maintains Bullish Stance On Nuclear

Barclays is out with a report on nuclear and how the industry is progressing from conviction to construction. The report highlights year-to-date regulatory developments, demand and execution signals and market pricing across the industry. 

Last year, Barclays argued three core points regarding nuclear energy:

  • A nuclear renaissance is underway driven by energy security, decarbonization, and AI power demand
  • The nuclear fuel cycle is likely to be an upstream bottleneck that requires reshoring
  • As the theme matures, practical hurdles will take center stage, such as speed to power, labor, permitting, and unit economics

Given the run up in their broad global nuclear ecosystem index (BCGLNUCL +19%) this year, there is undoubtedly a continued interest in the nuclear theme. This also correlates with “a broad rotation from capital-light to capital-heavy (HALO) sectors”.

The market seems to be distinguishing between the themes within the nuclear renaissance, with companies in the nuclear fuel chain (BCNUCLUR +30%) providing higher returns YTD than the broader nuclear ecosystem…

The bar is being set higher by investors lately, though, with money being “less willing to fund nuclear on narrative alone, instead increasingly rewarding delivery of existing megawatts, visible permitting progress or at least a credible bridge from concept to contracted project”. 

As we detailed long before most others started realizing it, Barclays also notes how the Iran war has accentuated national energy security concerns. It has not gone unnoticed how countries like France have had little to care about with the dramatic energy market price swings, while countries like Germany and other Asian nations have suffered. 

The Iran war has also led to a plus for nuclear energy adoption in Europe based on the broader concept of the strategic autonomy agenda at the EU.

As it should be well understood by our readers at this point, the underwriting of nuclear development by hyperscalers has given significant confidence to the adoption of nuclear energy in the US. Massive energy deals from Meta, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon have all highlighted the significant role to be played by a power source that's actually clean and reliable. 

While Barclays notes there are plenty of bottlenecks that remain throughout the nuclear industry, “progress has become more visible in areas that matter most for build out”. Issues are being worked on in concrete ways throughout the fuel cycle, licensing, and component supply areas. 

The report emphasizes that the clearest evidence of progress is in the fuel cycle. Progress is turning into production at US uranium mines and major projects are progressing through development in Canada. 

Other award programs from the U.S Department of Energy are also boosting the front end of the fuel chain, specifically the $2.7 billion for enrichment capacity. 

Significant progress has also been made on the regulation front with improvements to new licensing pathways and high speed programs for iteration and demonstration of new reactor technology. 

With site-specific planning ongoing, along with early component ordering, “the industry is beginning to bridge the gap between design ambition and concrete delivery”. 

Calling back to their previous point of the labor bottleneck, this challenge is starting to work its way to be the leading issue. Unlike a lot of the supply chain issues, which are mostly solved with more money, “workforce constraints remain deeply structural and are likely to take longer to ease”. 

And then there is the issue of where the US gets 300,000 engineers to build all this missing power supply by 2030 https://t.co/a18crhqZ4v pic.twitter.com/tinW8SHDwM

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) October 14, 2025

At Barclay's recent NextGen Energy Conference in New York, the participants reportedly highlighted labor as a critical and growing execution constraint on both the data center construction and power generation construction areas. Data centers and reactor plants will find themselves competing for the same limited pool of electricians, engineers, and experienced construction labor. 

This leads to Barclays making the closing statement that “labour is now emerging as perhaps the most important residual hurdle to the pace of the nuclear renaissance, with progress in this area likely to play a key role in determining whether improving policy support and hyperscaler demand can translate into build-out at scale”.

Tyler Durden Wed, 04/29/2026 - 18:00
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NY Post
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The Day The Memecoin Dies

Zero Rss
3 months 1 week ago
The Day The Memecoin Dies

Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance

I opened Twitter this morning and saw a photo of a group of guys, lanyards swinging, hoodies zipped, shuffling off to a “memecoin conference.”

Which is to say we have reached the point in the batshit insanity cycle where people are boarding planes and booking hotels to celebrate coins that started as jokes about dogs. Pause and really sit with that.

Memecoins are not businesses. They are not technologies in any meaningful sense. They produce nothing, fix nothing, and generate exactly zero in revenue unless you count the transfer of money from the last guy in to the guy just ahead of him. They are vapor. Digitized empty space. Financial air pockets passed hand to hand with a straight face, as if this is all perfectly rational behavior.

And right now, it feels normal.

Of course it does. Markets are pressing highs. The Shiller P/E ratio is floating around nosebleed territory at 40x still. Everyone is still making money, or thinks they are. Risk is a punchline despite AI deals falling apart and private credit imploding. In that kind of environment, a memecoin conference doesn’t look insane. It looks like networking.

Now fast forward. Not a polite dip. Not a minor wobble. A real drawdown in the stock market. 30%, maybe more. The kind that makes people stop checking their portfolios because they already know what they’ll see. The kind that turns group chats quiet.

Now try pitching Dogecoin in that environment. Try explaining Shiba Inu to someone who just watched a third of their net worth evaporate. Go ahead, tell them it’s “community driven” and see how far that gets you. What passes for clever marketing in a bull market starts to sound like a bad joke when people are bleeding money. That’s when this whole thing stops being cute. And trust me, it’ll happen.

Because memecoins don’t have a floor. There is no underlying business, no cash flow, no assets, no mechanism to anchor price to reality. When sentiment breaks, there is nothing to catch them. They don’t fall, they disappear. Liquidity dries up, bids vanish, and what was once “worth” billions becomes a ghost town of abandoned tickers and bagholders like it all existed on Alderaan the day before the Death Star vaporized it.

And yes, before the emails come in, maybe Bitcoin has a role. Maybe Ethereum does too. Fine. Debate that all you want. But crypto as a whole still sits at the far edge of the risk spectrum. It is where excess lives. It is where speculation goes when plain old stocks aren’t exciting enough.

And at the absolute tip of that spear, the sharpest, most unstable point, are memecoins. Of the $2.6T crypto ecosystem, bitcoin is $1.5T and ethereum is $274B. That would still leave about $750 billion in excess bullshit and nonsense that doesn’t necessarily need to exist for any reason.

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They are not investments. They are momentum traps wrapped in irony. They only work as long as someone more reckless shows up after you. That’s not a strategy. That’s a countdown.

I can’t believe I have to say this, but if you need a simple rule, here it is. If the entire pitch boils down to “someone else will pay more later,” you are not investing. You are volunteering to be the exit liquidity. And in markets like this, there is always someone left holding the bag. Try not to forget that…as we rush to more all time highs.

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Tyler Durden Wed, 04/29/2026 - 17:40
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