The Salon convenes a small, carefully selected mix of organizations and leaders whose decisions influence nuclear deployment, modernization, and long-term capacity. Participation includes established sector leadership as well as the new voices, new capital, and emerging technologies entering nuclear through industrial demand, digital systems, automation, and AI.
Each gathering brings together the specific perspectives needed for that session. Curation is central to the Salon's value: conversations reflect the capabilities required for progress, not a single institutional viewpoint.
Reactor developers define the technological foundation of nuclear's next phase. Participants include teams advancing FOAK and next-generation designs through licensing, siting, engineering, construction planning, manufacturability, FOAK execution models, and replication pathways for scale.
Their work shapes what becomes deployable in the 2030–2050 timeframe.
Utility decisions determine long-term deployment, siting, and operational models. Participants contribute insight on fleet expansion, new capacity planning, siting requirements, operational expectations for high-reliability systems, digital modernization, and integration with grid-level and industrial demand.
Their perspective anchors discussions in real operational constraints and opportunities.
EPCs are responsible for delivering nuclear projects on schedule and at scale. Their contributions focus on FOAK delivery frameworks, engineering and construction integration, contracting structures and risk allocation, scheduling, logistics, and pathways from FOAK to replication.
EPCs bring the practical realities of execution directly into the conversation.
Manufacturing capacity is one of the largest determinants of deployment. Participants include component suppliers, fabrication partners, modular construction firms, and industrial manufacturers working on reactor components, advanced manufacturing, automation, quality systems, certification, logistics, and scaling capacity from 2030–2050.
Their capabilities form the industrial base required for long-term growth.
New capital models are essential to making nuclear financeable and scalable. Participants include investors from infrastructure, private equity, institutional capital, venture investment, and corporate strategy. Engagement focuses on milestone-based financing, underwriting execution and sovereign risk, FOAK and replication-oriented models, supply chain and manufacturing finance, and how digital and AI tools increase visibility and bankability.
This is where nuclear aligns with capital markets.
Policy and regulatory frameworks shape the pace and feasibility of deployment. Participants include those working on licensing modernization, federal and state energy policy, advanced manufacturing incentives, industrial strategy, international alignment, and energy security.
Their insight links deployment realities with governance requirements.
Research organizations provide the scientific, technical, and analytical foundations of the sector. Participants contribute expertise in modeling, simulation, materials science, safety and regulatory analysis, digital modernization, advanced manufacturing research, and systems-level integration.
They bring long-horizon context to near-term decisions.
Demand from industry and AI is reshaping electricity needs at the grid and facility level. Participants include leaders from data centers, manufacturing, chemicals, and global supply chains. Their presence reflects the growing market pull for firm, reliable, carbon-free capacity.
These perspectives are essential to understanding near-term and long-term demand trajectories.
New technologies are transforming how nuclear projects are designed, delivered, operated, and financed. Participants include companies working on simulation, digital twins, robotics, sensing, autonomous inspection, predictive maintenance, structured documentation, AI-supported engineering and regulatory workflows, and augmented operations.
These entrants bring capabilities that improve execution, reliability, and investor confidence.
Participation is by invitation. Each gathering is tailored around the specific perspectives required for that discussion area, enabling focused, high-context dialogue.
The goal is not scale.
The goal is assembling the right mix of capabilities in the room.