Have you seen eggs at any time in your inspections? Have you seen any signs of queen cells during your inspections?
If there are no eggs, your queen may not have survived the forming of the nuke.
If you didn't have a queen and had eggs initially, the hive (nuke) would have attempted to raise a queen.
You might be able to go back to your nuke supplier and ask if they will supply a replacement queen if you can verify that you have no queen, or the queen isn't laying. Do you know someone who can look through the hive with you? What area of central Oregon do you live in?