Reactor Atlas
Details
- External ID
- 49549148
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- Reactor Atlas
- Website domain
- reactoratlas.com
- Launched
- Sept. 3, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 78
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8963317384370016
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
Description
Hi HN, I'm a nuclear engineer and tech entrepreneur. After working for 3 years in the National Atomic Energy Commision (CNEA) in HPC software for nuclear simulations, I co-founded ratherlabs.com, a software company providing blockchain solutions for startups. Rather Labs business reached ~6 million usd in annual revenue in 2024; now demand is decreasing as our niche clients are using AI to launch their MVPs.Now I'm joining my scientific background with my entrepreneurial inclinations to think of problems related to the energy industry. Nuclear is experiencing a renaissance now (it was in a dark age when I was studying after the Fukushima event) so I think this is the right moment for me to jump again into the field.Reactor atlas is an interactive nuclear reactor map and an intelligence layer on top of it. The basic layer indexes: - power reactors - research reactors - fuel facilities with their history and projection, by country. The project is solving a fragmented information ecosystem, where operational and commercial data is hard to conciliate. Also, I'm monitoring nuclear news associated with each of the facilities, political declarations that may affect the nuclear landscape and geo-phisical news (like earthquakes) that could affect operation. On top of the operational + news layer, I'm creating an intelligence layer that will help institutions of different types make faster decisions by subscribing to very specific alerts.As an engineer, I used to code in fortran and c++ when I was working at CNEA, and later I participated in the first Rather Labs projects architecting complex async systems, mostly using MERN stack. I'm no longer coding anymore. I'm focused on designing robust systems with AI agents.I mainly used Claude Fable 5.1 to develop reactoratlas.com, deploying on vercel and using mostly nextjs, threejs, postgreSQL and some cron jobs to query and update data. I miss coding as in the old days, but I haven't code a single line in this project. And I strongly believe we humans shouldn't code anymore: our responsibility is now on designing and supervising AI systems.Thanks for your attention!
Enrichment
- Theme
- interactive simulations and creative experiments
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- Normalized one-liner
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- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The front-end map and timeline visualization can be easily built, but aggregating, cleaning, and continuously ingesting live operational signals from worldwide nuclear reactors requires custom data scrapers and domain-specific knowledge.
What it would actually take: A production version uses Next.js and Mapbox/Cesium for 3D globe visualization of nuclear facilities. The hard part is building reliable ingestion pipelines that aggregate data across disparate regulatory bodies, utility transparency reports, and IAEA PRIS datasets while handling real-time telemetry. It requires ETL infrastructure (e.g. Dagster/Airflow) and nuclear regulatory domain awareness to interpret differing national operational reporting standards.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Difficulty filtering between nuclear plants and other energy events, Research and power layers not visible by default, Missing nuclear facilities in Australia, Germany phasing out nuclear power by 2026
Feature requests: Filter to show only nuclear plant-related events, Integrate other energy network layers with nuclear proportion visualization by region/country, Add natural reactor sites like Oklo to the atlas, Display full energy mix proportions per country beyond just electricity, Create country-by-country energy dashboards with planet-wide overview
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Attention rank: #15 of 112 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 302 days after the earliest competitor.
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