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Companies hiring Nuclear Engineers: 248 certified H-1B and PERM cases, FY2023 to FY2026
55 employers had 248 certified H-1B and PERM cases for Nuclear Engineers (occupation code 17-2161) across 27 states, decided through June 30, 2026; the median offered wage is $110,548 a year.
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- 17-2161Occupation code (SOC)
Certified cases by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Cases |
|---|
| FY2023 | 57 |
| FY2024 | 65 |
| FY2025 | 68 |
| FY2026 | 58 |
By state
| State | Cases | Employers | Median offered |
|---|
| Idaho | 47 | 2 | $128,760 |
| Tennessee | 37 | 2 | $128,945 |
| Illinois | 30 | 4 | $85,248 |
| New Mexico | 16 | 2 | $137,921 |
| Virginia | 13 | 2 | $90,438 |
| Massachusetts | 11 | 5 | $105,000 |
| California | 10 | 7 | $105,846 |
| Maryland | 10 | 7 | $108,862 |
| New Jersey | 10 | 2 | $109,441 |
| Wisconsin | 8 | 1 | $81,576 |
| Michigan | 8 | 1 | $77,400 |
| New York | 7 | 4 | $80,000 |
| Texas | 7 | 5 | $108,867 |
| North Carolina | 6 | 1 | $80,000 |
| Washington | 6 | 4 | $115,620 |
| Florida | 4 | 3 | $109,054 |
| District of Columbia | 3 | 2 | $136,000 |
| Missouri | 2 | 1 | $71,500 |
| Oregon | 2 | 2 | $129,450 |
| Indiana | 2 | 1 | $67,425 |
| Arizona | 1 | 1 | $114,712 |
| South Carolina | 1 | 1 | $135,600 |
| Pennsylvania | 1 | 1 | $84,094 |
| Kansas | 1 | 1 | $122,967 |
| Mississippi | 1 | 1 | $114,275 |
| Ohio | 1 | 1 | $67,413 |
| Alabama | 1 | 1 | $120,001 |
Employers with the most cases
| Employer | Address | Cases |
|---|
| Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC | Idaho Falls, ID | 51 |
| Ut-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) | Oak Ridge, TN | 37 |
| UChicago Argonne LLC | Lemont, IL | 25 |
| Framatome Inc. | Lynchburg, VA | 15 |
| Triad National Security, LLC | Los Alamos, NM | 12 |
| University of Wisconsin System | Madison, WI | 8 |
| University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | 8 |
| Holtec International | Camden, NJ | 8 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | 7 |
| North Carolina State University | Raleigh, NC | 6 |
| Kairos Power LLC | Alameda, CA | 6 |
| University of Maryland College Park | College Park, MD | 4 |
| University of California, Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | 3 |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | 3 |
| University of Illinois | Urbana, IL | 2 |
| The Curators of the University of Missouri | Columbia, MO | 2 |
| Research Foundation of CUNY | New York, NY | 2 |
| Purdue University | West Lafayette, IN | 2 |
| Deployable Energy Limited | Houston, TX | 2 |
| Constellation Energy Generation LLC | Kennett Square, PA | 2 |
| Japan Electric Power Information Center, USA | Washington, DC | 2 |
| The University Of Tennessee | Knoxville, TN | 2 |
| Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | Palo Alto, CA | 2 |
| Ge Vernova Operations LLC | Cambridge, MA | 2 |
| Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station | College Station, TX | 2 |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Troy, NY | 2 |
| Studsvik Scandpower, Inc. | Wilmington, NC | 2 |
| Battelle Memorial Institute | Richland, WA | 2 |
| Fusion Energy Solutions | Tempe, AZ | 1 |
| Ampera, Inc. | Palm Beach Gardens, FL | 1 |
| Alva Energy, Inc | Cambridge, MA | 1 |
| Commonwealth Fusion HR LLC | Devens, MA | 1 |
| Helion Energy, Inc. | Everett, WA | 1 |
| Aerotherm Computational Dynamics USA, LLC | Rockville, MD | 1 |
| Reactor Eye, Inc. | Houston, TX | 1 |
| The Feinstein Institutes For Medical Research | Manhasset, NY | 1 |
| RadiaBeam Technologies, LLC | Santa Monica, CA | 1 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | 1 |
| NANO Nuclear Energy Inc. | New York, NY | 1 |
| EX-Fusion America Inc | San Francisco, CA | 1 |
| Exponent, Inc. | Menlo Park, CA | 1 |
| University Of Florida | Gainesville, FL | 1 |
| Cyient, Inc. | East Hartford, CT | 1 |
| Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Berkeley, CA | 1 |
| The University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | 1 |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University | Blacksburg, VA | 1 |
| X Energy, LLC | Rockville, MD | 1 |
| Oregon State University | Corvallis, OR | 1 |
| EnergySolutions, LLC | Salt Lake City, | 1 |
| The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan | Washington, DC | 1 |
| Entergy Operations, Inc. | New Orleans, LA | 1 |
| TN Americas LLC | Columbia,, MD | 1 |
| The Catholic University of America | Washington, DC | 1 |
| The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | 1 |
| The University of Alabama at Birmingham | Birmingham, AL | 1 |
Updated June 30, 2026. Read from US Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification. Public domain (U.S. government work). A certified labor condition application (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3) or PERM labor certification is an employer filing the Department of Labor approved. It is not a count of people hired or visas issued. Wages are as the employer filed them, converted to a yearly figure at 2,080 hours; a wage whose unit is missing is left blank. The files show the first worksite of a case. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.