Build More, Build Better: Turning New Nuclear into Supply Chain Strength

Build More, Build Better: Turning New Nuclear into Supply Chain Strength. As the pace of new reactor projects and uprates accelerate, the industry faces unprecedented supply chain demands and opportunities. Nuclear uprates remain the fastest and most economical pathway to advancing #DOE’s UPRISE program goals. This strategic session focuses on using the current wave of nuclear new builds and investment in the existing fleet as a springboard to develop a more robust supply chain and the broader industrial capabilities needed to support sustained nuclear growth. Industry strategists will outline how new deployments and fleet modernization can drive improvements in domestic manufacturing, workforce capabilities, and supplier qualification processes, while examining the practical challenges of executing nuclear projects—from engineering and procurement to supplier quality, project delivery, and scaling manufacturing capacity.

The discussion will also look across the broader nuclear lifecycle, including fuel-cycle infrastructure, spent fuel management and recycling, and Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses, and how these capabilities can develop alongside growth in both new and existing nuclear generation to support long-term industry growth.

Attendees will gain: A strategic and practical view of how new nuclear deployment and investment in the existing fleet can strengthen domestic manufacturing, workforce capability, and supplier readiness for the broader industry, including lessons from active new-build development, power uprates and fleet projects, major-project procurement and execution, supplier scaling, and development of the broader nuclear lifecycle infrastructure needed to sustain long-term nuclear growth.

Who should attend

• Utility executives involved in existing fleet strategy, power uprates, and new nuclear deployment
• Procurement and supply chain leaders supporting fleet and capital projects
• Supplier development and manufacturing leaders
• Project directors and construction supply chain teams
• Engineering, quality, and project execution leaders supporting the operating fleet and new nuclear
• Government affairs and policy professionals
• OEMs, EPC firms, and advanced reactor developers
• Leaders focused on domestic content and industrial base growth
• Fuel-cycle, spent fuel, recycling, and nuclear materials organizations