Day Two

• Every link in the chain, owner, EPC, MEP, engineer, fabricator and QA, in one room naming their single biggest blocker
• Stress-testing a real delivery sequence live, exposing where the first fleet actually breaks down
• Agreeing on stage what each link needs from the others, the alignment you cannot get in any single-company meeting

Practical Takeaway: Leave with something you can get nowhere else: a live, room-tested view of where the whole delivery chain breaks first, who owns each fix, and exactly what every link needs from the others to commit to a real schedule.

• Explaining what actually drove the overruns at Vogtle and Olkiluoto, and the specific fixes that followed
• Sharing how Korea’s KEPCO delivered Barakah in the UAE on time and on budget, and what made that possible
• Weighing live US projects like Natrium and the X-energy Seadrift build against those retrospectives

Practical Takeaway: Leave with the specific delivery and standardization decisions that separated the on-time international builds from the multi-billion-dollar overruns, and a clear view of which lessons realistically transfer to a US first fleet.

• Consolidating a fragmented market toward one or two reference designs per reactor size class
• Designing explicitly for manufacture, repeatability and modular assembly rather than one-off construction
• Getting to a “design one, build many” mindset, and finding where standardization realistically starts today

Practical Takeaway: Leave knowing where design standardization can realistically start given today’s crowded field, and how a design-one-build-many approach, rather than bespoke delivery, is what actually unlocks lower cost and schedule.

• Judging when modular construction genuinely beats stick-built, and being honest about when it does not
• Modularizing large-bore pipe, supports and skids where the productivity gains are real and repeatable
• Matching module size and weight to the site’s actual rail, road, crane and barge access

Practical Takeaway: Leave with a practical test for when modular actually beats stick-built for a given scope, and how to size modules to the real transport and lift constraints of a site rather than to an idealized plan.

• Building trade-school and apprenticeship pipelines that feed real nuclear craft, with skills testing built in
• Running the training programs and retention strategies that keep people once you have them
• Rebuilding the superintendent and field-engineer bench after a twenty-year gap in nuclear construction

Practical Takeaway: Leave with specific, proven approaches, from apprenticeships and skills testing to training programs and retention strategies, for building a nuclear workforce pipeline that actually holds.

• Agreeing practical, shared solutions to the craft shortage, not another round of naming it
• Designing craft pipelines several projects can share rather than each firm hoarding scarce people
• Leaving with two concrete commitments the room will act on

Practical Takeaway: Leave with a shortlist of practical, already-working solutions and two shared commitments the room agrees to act on, turning the workforce shortage from a talking point into collective action.

• Building the capital stack across developer, owner, off-taker and government
• Structuring the deal so the developer and its customer finance the project together, not in isolation
• Allocating commercial risk so the first order gets signed and the next one follows

Practical Takeaway: Leave knowing how the developer-customer financing deal actually comes together on a first build, and how to structure it so it repeats.