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Best nuclear & SMR stocks

Best nuclear & SMR stocks for the AI boom — sub-$5bn picks. Researched by Semibadger — not financial advice.

Best nuclear & SMR stocks is a Semibadger research list. We trawl the world's exchanges for nuclear & SMR stocks — names that trade below a $5 billion market cap, often well below, and that have a credible angle into the AI-infrastructure build-out: chips, packaging, power, optics, cooling, nuclear, or the materials that underpin all of it.

Why bother with the small end of the market? Because the obvious winners — the trillion-dollar names — are already priced for perfection. The interesting risk-reward sits with the suppliers, the picks-and-shovels, and the regional specialists most people have never heard of. Some of these will be duds. A handful might be tomorrow's headlines. On this page we focus on the nuclear & SMR corner of the market — smr, fuel, fission-adjacent.

Every ticker on this page links through to a full profile with a 5-year chart, headquarters, sector, an AI-expanded "what they do" description and the badger's one-line take. Treat it as a starting point for your own research, not a buy list. Nothing here is financial advice.

22 stocks the badger sniffed out

FCEL

US

FuelCell Energy

🦡 Carbonate fuel cells, post-hype turnaround

Power & Electrification☢️ Nuclear & Clean
~$0.5bn cap · open profile →

HBLENGINE.NS

India

HBL Engineering

🦡 Specialty batteries — defence, rail, nuclear

Power & Electrification☢️ Nuclear & Clean
~$0.7bn cap · open profile →

NNE

US

Nano Nuclear Energy

🦡 Micro-reactor concept-stage moonshot

☢️ Nuclear & Clean
~$1.0bn cap · open profile →

LEU

US

Centrus Energy

🦡 Only US HALEU enrichment producer

☢️ Nuclear & Clean⚗️ Materials & Chemicals
~$2.5bn cap · open profile →

UEC

US

Uranium Energy Corp

🦡 Largest US in-situ uranium producer

☢️ Nuclear & Clean⚗️ Materials & Chemicals
~$3.0bn cap · open profile →

UUUU

US

Energy Fuels

🦡 Uranium + rare-earth processing two-fer

☢️ Nuclear & Clean⚗️ Materials & Chemicals
~$1.5bn cap · open profile →

ASPI

US

ASP Isotopes

🦡 Enriched-isotope tech for nuclear & medical

☢️ Nuclear & Clean⚗️ Materials & Chemicals
~$1.0bn cap · open profile →

LTBR

US

Lightbridge

🦡 Advanced metallic fuel rods, micro-cap punt

☢️ Nuclear & Clean
~$0.2bn cap · open profile →

URG

US

Ur-Energy

🦡 Wyoming ISR uranium producer

☢️ Nuclear & Clean
~$0.3bn cap · open profile →

UROY

Canada

Uranium Royalty Corp

🦡 Pure-play uranium royalty vehicle

☢️ Nuclear & Clean
~$0.4bn cap · open profile →

EU

US

enCore Energy

🦡 US ISR uranium producer scaling up

☢️ Nuclear & Clean
~$0.5bn cap · open profile →

DNN

Canada

Denison Mines

🦡 Canadian uranium developer, Wheeler River

☢️ Nuclear & Clean
~$2.0bn cap · open profile →

NXE

Canada

NexGen Energy

🦡 Rook 1 — Tier-1 Canadian uranium development

☢️ Nuclear & Clean
~$3.5bn cap · open profile →

YCA.L

UK

Yellow Cake plc

🦡 Pure-play physical uranium holder, NAV trade

☢️ Nuclear & Clean
~$1.0bn cap · open profile →

GLO.TO

Canada

Global Atomic

🦡 Niger uranium project, geopolitical risk

☢️ Nuclear & Clean
~$0.1bn cap · open profile →

BOE.AX

ANZ

Boss Energy

🦡 Australian in-situ uranium restart story

☢️ Nuclear & Clean
~$1.5bn cap · open profile →

PDN.AX

ANZ

Paladin Energy

🦡 Namibian Langer Heinrich uranium restart

☢️ Nuclear & Clean
~$3.0bn cap · open profile →

DYL.AX

ANZ

Deep Yellow

🦡 Tumas Namibia uranium developer

☢️ Nuclear & Clean
~$0.7bn cap · open profile →

BMN.AX

ANZ

Bannerman Energy

🦡 Etango Namibia uranium developer

☢️ Nuclear & Clean
~$0.4bn cap · open profile →

LOT.AX

ANZ

Lotus Resources

🦡 Kayelekera Malawi uranium restart

☢️ Nuclear & Clean
~$0.3bn cap · open profile →

IDR

US

Idaho Strategic Resources

🦡 Rare-earth + gold dual play

⚗️ Materials & Chemicals☢️ Nuclear & Clean
~$0.3bn cap · open profile →

METC

US

Ramaco Resources

🦡 Met coal + Brook Mine rare earths

⚗️ Materials & Chemicals☢️ Nuclear & Clean
~$0.6bn cap · open profile →

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