Nuclear Power Consulting

Our technical, financial, and environmental due diligence provides an independent, holistic assessment of new nuclear projects and existing assets to give investors, lenders, owners, and counterparties a comparative view of where a project stands relative to industry norms and regulatory expectations. We’ve gained relevant experience conducting due diligence reviews in support of asset acquisitions, U.S. Department of Energy financing, private equity investors, tax equity financing, and debt lenders.

Based on design, construction quality, operating performance, and environmental and regulatory compliance assessments, our team focuses on identifying key technical risks, potential impacts on reliability and availability, and how those risks translate into life-cycle cost, schedule, and performance exposure.

In parallel, our team also reviews and stress tests financial models, revenue assumptions, and cost forecasts. We perform or validate asset valuations to reflect current market conditions and asset-specific risk factors. We strive to deliver a decision-ready package that ties technical and environmental findings directly to value, enabling better-informed acquisition, divestment, or financing decisions and providing defensible bases for negotiations, credit approvals, and ongoing monitoring.

Our contracting and procurement support helps clients structure, source, and secure the technologies, contractors, and services that may be needed to deliver nuclear projects while managing commercial and execution risk. On the contracting side, consultants work with owners to prepare clear technical specifications and scopes of work, define performance and acceptance criteria, and translate those requirements into robust contract terms, including warranties, guarantees, change-management mechanisms, and dispute-resolution provisions. Technical and commercial responsibilities are negotiated, allocated and aligned with project objectives over the asset life cycle. We recognize supply chain constraints can be limiting factors for growth. Our team can develop strategic approaches to navigate the complex energy landscape.

On the procurement side, we develop strategy, requests for proposals (RFPs), bid documentation, bidder Q&A, evaluation frameworks, and commercial risk allocation. We develop bid evaluation criteria tailored to clients’ priorities – for example cost, schedule, risk profile, supply chain resilience, and regulatory considerations – to support negotiations and advocate favorable pricing and terms. This approach helps clients run transparent, defensible procurement processes and negotiate contracts that are designed to facilitate financing, support compliance efforts, and remain practical to administer in day-to-day project and operations environments while navigating the complex energy landscape.

Our benchmarking and operational assessments compare clients’ plants, fleets, or programs against peer utilities, industry best practices, and applicable safety and regulatory standards. Using rigorous data collection and normalization across performance, cost, staffing, and reliability, we build a quantitative baseline of current performance supported by qualitative site visits and stakeholder interviews. Our team then examines in-plant and corporate processes, maintenance strategies, outage execution, and organizational interfaces to understand how clients’ work is planned, executed, and governed in practice.

These insights inform practical performance improvement plans that target both quick wins and deeper structural changes. Recommended actions may include operations and maintenance optimization, adjustments to outage and maintenance strategies, workflow and process refinements, training and human performance initiatives, and updates to governance and decision-making frameworks. Each plan is prioritized by cost, risk, and expected benefit with clear project owners, timelines, and key performance indicators to help nuclear operators achieve measurable, sustainable improvements in safety, reliability, cost, and compliance.

Our management and strategy consulting services help client leadership teams set objectives, optimize organizational structures, and improve governance and decision making in technical and regulatory intensive environments. We help address operating model design, role clarity, performance management frameworks, and interface management between corporate, project, and plant organizations. We work closely with client executives and managers to align strategic priorities with practical constraints, including workforce, technology, and regulatory obligations to embed disciplined, data-driven management practices that improve project execution and operations, while recommending safety and compliance measures to support stakeholder confidence.

We often facilitate strategic planning sessions, develop key performance indicators and dashboards, and assess culture, communication, and change readiness. Our team can also support implementation through change-management plans, training, and ongoing advisory services.