Mark Nelson ✓

@energybants · Chicago, IL · joined 20 Jun 2015

Building nuclear. Chief of Staff @TheNuclearCo. Prev: @RadiantEnergyG @envprogress @cambridge_eng @run4okstate

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Mark Nelson ✓@energybants1 Aug

Vintage photos from building a nuclear plant in the 1970s on a few hundred acres of corn fields in northern Illinois. Byron still powers two million people in Chicago today and can keep going for at least half a century more. We will get back to building. More pics below. http

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Mark Nelson ✓@energybants30 Jul

Chicago folks! Come hang out with @energybants, @captain_rogerb and I on Saturday to talk about America's most nuclear-powered state ⚛️ The event is free and open to the public, register here: https://t.co/xd3cvn6PFR https://t.co/WZQEGHuMYa

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Mark Nelson ✓@energybants19 Jul

Walking into the sold-out closing night of my wife's opera, Orpheus in the Underworld. She's the leading lady and dies in the first act but it turns out ok! I tell people her nuclear plant singing prepared her for this moment. Our son turned two yesterday. What a week! https:/

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Mark Nelson ✓@energybants17 Jul

About 5% of all electricity in America comes from nuclear reactors that our team at The Nuclear Company serviced in the first half of this year alone. That's 27 reactors at 15 plants in 9 states. Our insight here is that we're going to need outstanding crews to complete, 16K views · 167 likes · 17 reposts · 8 replies Open on X →

Mark Nelson ✓@energybants14 Jul

Decades of precision nuclear maintenance experience. Our team’s legacy is built for what’s next. https://t.co/MnYjiY1l7a

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Mark Nelson ✓@energybants9 Jul

Flying over Gary at sunset yesterday has me thinking steel, especially for nuclear. Gary's role in pop culture is at odds with how productive its steel industry remains today. I snapped these phone pics out of the right side of the plane headed to Chicago of the Indiana Harbor

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Mark Nelson ✓@energybants9 Jul

Throwback: In the 1970s, Bethlehem Steel operated a 15,000-ton forge press in PA that cranked out reactor parts for the first fleet of nuclear reactors. We can rebuild this capability and onshore heavy manufacturing. https://t.co/xCcnNdtRvL

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Mark Nelson ✓@energybants12 Jan

open this if you want to help me build it https://t.co/pCvHmYcIPs

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Mark Nelson ✓@energybants21 May 2025

Opera in a nuclear plant! My wife is a professional soprano. On her first visit with me to a nuclear plant, the music-loving plant manager asked if she'd demonstrate the sound of opera in a giant cooling tower. Three days later we learned we would be expecting our first baby. h

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Im Vergleich zu Konten gleicher Größe

7 Beiträge aus den letzten 90 Tagen, verglichen mit der Größenklasse 10K–100K Follower. wird weit gezeigt, aber nur wenige dieser Zuschauer reagieren.

Medianaufrufe25 351dieses Konto924Median für 10K–100K

Reichweite, %28.07%dieses Konto3.62%Median für 10K–100K

Interaktion, %0.89%dieses Konto1.52%Median für 10K–100K

Kennzahl	Dieses Konto	Median für 10K–100K	Verhältnis
Medianaufrufe pro Beitrag	25 351	924	27.4×
Reichweite (Aufrufe ÷ Follower)	28.07%	3.62%	7.75×
Interaktionsrate	0.89%	1.52%	0.58×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

42.6K21 May

1.8M12 Jan

25.6K9 Jul

22.8K

29.7K14 Jul

16K17 Jul

16.1K19 Jul

30K30 Jul

25.4K1 Aug

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.49%21 May

0.55%12 Jan

0.39%9 Jul

0.89%

0.13%14 Jul

1.22%17 Jul

1.36%19 Jul

0.27%30 Jul

1.98%1 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes91.8%11 212 in total

Reposts2.2%272 in total

Replies1.6%191 in total

Quotes0.4%52 in total

Bookmarks4.0%486 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.