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absolutely none!!!
Both have photoelectric effect occurring in its process
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoelectric_effect
EDIT: Kyle, the question was ‘similarities’. Obviously this is an minor, insignificant, and downright superfulous similarity but does occur in both processes. I answered the question as written without interjecting what I thought the asker was meaning to ask.
None. Nuclear plants are more similar to coal, oil, geo-thermal, and gas power plants. They all produce heat that boils water into steam to turn a turbine, which makes electricity.
Solar converts EM radiation, sunlight, into electricity.
BTW, photoelectric effect applies to electrons, atomic scale. For nuclear reactions, it is called isometric transition, nuclear scale. They are conceptual similar, when excited they emit a photon, but are too different beasts. I am sure atoms in the reactor do experience a photoelectric effect from interactions from other charge particles and photo-excitation.
However, they are trying to make photocells that can convert the gamma rays coming from the nuclear reactor to make electricity from that similar to a solar cell.