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| Nuclear has re-emerged as a strategic priority as utilities and power producers seek firm, dispatchable capacity with long operating life. This topic spans the current fleet and the next wave of development, including uprates, license extensions, unretirements, outage performance, new build considerations, supply chain readiness and capital planning. The conversation is increasingly practical because nuclear decisions now intersect reliability, load growth and investment strategy.
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Nuclear Educational Opportunities
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Physical attacks on substations, drone incursions over generation facilities, ransomware targeting operational technology, supply chain compromise, and insider risk are no longer theoretical threat ve …
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Replacing analog safety systems with digital instrumentation and controls at a commercial nuclear reactor is a first-of-a-kind undertaking for most utilities. The engineering is complex, but the licen …
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Fusion energy is moving from laboratory demonstration toward the early stages of commercial project development. For utilities, IPPs, and investors planning resource portfolios beyond 2035, the questi …Chairperson
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Executive Order 14301 set a target for at least three advanced reactors to achieve criticality by July 4, 2026. Four met the deadline, with a fifth following shortly after, marking the most concentrat …Chairperson
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Feedwater system erosion, high-energy piping degradation, and boiler component failures follow predictable patterns at most thermal plants. The repair decisions made during outages, often under time p …
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An accelerating retirement wave in plant operations is removing institutional knowledge faster than conventional training programs can replace it. In high-consequence environments, including outage wo …
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MRO inventory is where equipment reliability and working capital intersect. Overstocking creates obsolescence risk and ties up capital. Understocking drives stockouts, expedited freight, and extended …Chairperson
1:30 PM
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Constellation and Microsoft's partnership extends beyond the Crane Clean Energy Center restart into how AI tools can support nuclear fleet operations. This session spotlights one active application, A …
9:30 AM
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Advanced reactor development, DOE-funded infrastructure projects and NRC-regulated work are expanding the universe of organizations encountering ASME NQA-1 requirements for the first time. For EPCs, c …Chairperson
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Advanced nuclear is moving from concept to hardware. BWXT Advanced Technologies began production of the Project Pele transportable reactor in July 2025, delivered TRISO fuel to Idaho National Laborato …
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Supercritical CO₂ power cycles have been in development for two decades. They are now approaching commercial deployment, and the applications relevant to the POWERGEN audience are specific: gas turbin …
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Every major U.S. nuclear utility is now planning or executing large-scale digital instrumentation and control upgrades. Aging analog infrastructure, subsequent license renewals extending plant life to …Chairperson
Tennessee Valley Authority gets green light to build first BWRX-300 small modular reactor in the US
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued TVA a construction permit for Clinch River Unit 1, a 300-megawatt (MW) GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy BWRX-300 small boiling-water modular reactor near Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
October 01, 2026
Army offers up underutilized military land to private developers for new power generation and storage
The U.S. Army selected three private developers, including Ameresco, Indelible-Bloom, and Frontier Power USA, to build power generation projects on military bases, enhancing energy resilience.
September 25, 2026
Blue Energy files first NRC application for Texas gas-to-nuclear project
Blue Energy has filed the first portion of its NRC construction permit application for a first-of-its-kind gas-to-nuclear power plant in Port of Victoria, Texas. The project would pair GE Vernova gas turbines with BWRX-300 small modular reactors in a phased approach designed to accelerate nuclear deployment.
September 24, 2026
