Day One

• Facing the real question head on: not how big the opportunity is, but whether the industry can actually deliver it
• Sizing the gap between roughly 100 large, 400 SMR, and thousands of micro reactors and today’s delivery capacity
• Setting up the delivery challenge, across supply chain, workforce and licensing, that the rest of the programme exists to solve

Practical Takeaway: Leave with an honest, cross-industry read on whether the fleet can actually be built, and a sharp sense of the delivery gap that every session over the next two days is designed to help you close.

• Walking the Duane Arnold restart: refurbishment scope, NRC re-authorization and the milestones to a targeted 2029 return to service
• Comparing a BWR restart with the Crane case just heard, and what actually transfers between restart projects
• Re-mobilizing the workforce, supply chain and long-lead parts, and how a data-center PPA and DOE loan underpin the build

Practical Takeaway: Leave with a second, side-by-side restart case: the refurbishment, licensing and financing moves that bring a shut-down plant back, and which of them repeat across restarts.

• Adding 835 MW of clean, reliable energy, with Constellation hitting its restart strategic-plan milestones roughly a year ahead of schedule
• Walking the Crane restart project milestones and the hard-won learnings coming straight out of hot functional testing
• Running a portfolio of around 25 concurrent major projects and 27,000 total activities, from cooling towers to control-room upgrades, and the work-order engine behind them

Practical Takeaway: Leave with a live, current view of how an operating utility actually plans and sequences a first-of-its-kind restart at scale, and the hot-functional and milestone learnings that transfer directly to new build.

• Reading why the US government and utilities have converged on the AP1000 as the only proven, operating large reactor to scale, the target is 20 AP1000s, not 20 “units”
• Turning Vogtle’s hard-won lessons and Westinghouse’s re-certified NRC design into a repeatable, lower-risk build rather than another cost overrun
• Fixing the real killer, design maturity, so modular construction is not undone by midbuild design change

Practical Takeaway: Leave knowing why the AP1000 is the near-term backbone of the US large-reactor build, and exactly what design maturity and delivery discipline it takes to make the next units repeatable rather than a repeat of Vogtle.

• Walking the practical qualification pathway that brings lapsed fabricators back to N-stamp
• Widening the pool fast, using inherent-safety and simpler SMR designs to lower the bar
• Sharing audits and qualification data across owners and EPCs to cut the cost and time to qualify

Practical Takeaway: Leave with practical qualification pathways, not just a description of the shortage: how to re-qualify lapsed fabricators, widen the pool, and use shared audits to get more vendors nuclear-ready faster.

• Front-loading the constructability, site logistics and long-lead decisions that quietly set the whole schedule
• Building the preconstruction estimate and execution plan that a first-of-a-kind nuclear scope actually needs
• Getting specialty trades engaged early so nuclear QA and site readiness are solved before mobilization

Practical Takeaway: Leave with a preconstruction checklist for a first nuclear build: the constructability, logistics and early-engagement moves that prevent the expensive surprises once you are on site.

• Standing up Advanced Work Packaging so engineering, procurement and construction pull from one connected plan
• Building the project controls, schedule and progress metrics that keep a first-of-a-kind build honest
• Sequencing installation work packages so the craft always has a complete, ready front of work

Practical Takeaway: Leave with a practical AWP and project-controls blueprint that keeps engineering, procurement and the field working from one plan, so a first build runs to schedule instead of discovering problems at the workface.

• Building a credible estimate, man-hour basis and one true schedule for a first-of-akind build, between constructor and reactor developer
• Sequencing the limited pre-LTC work you can start before the full licence-to-construct lands
• Structuring EPC versus EPCM and where delivery risk should sit as new entrants and hyperscalers move into nuclear

Practical Takeaway: Leave with a practical basis for costing, scheduling and structuring a first nuclear build, and a clear view of how delivery and risk models need to evolve for first-of-a-kind projects.

• Working in discipline groups to put proven fixes on the table, not just name the roadblocks
• Swapping what has actually worked across EPC, GC, MEP, engineering and owner teams
• Leaving with a shared set of fixes you can take straight back to your own project

Practical Takeaway: Leave with a bank of proven, cross-discipline fixes you can apply immediately, not just a list of problems, having traded solutions with the teams that hit the same walls.

• Reckoning with how much capital and regulatory cost is spent before a final investment decision, and how that reshapes decision-making
• Delivering a first build in a genuinely new nuclear jurisdiction, where a state-owned enterprise owns the failure as well as the success
• Mobilizing a supply chain to make N-stamp and nuclear-qualification investments ahead of a project that has not yet been sanctioned

Practical Takeaway: Leave with a candid owner’s view of what it really takes to stand up new nuclear from scratch: the upfront cost, the political and commercial risk, and how a learning organization builds the capability to deliver anyway.