Nuclear Power

Leading Nuclear Energy’s New Era

Tomorrow’s energy security starts today with Bechtel. As a zero-carbon, safe, and reliable source of baseload power, nuclear energy is playing a vital role in growing the world’s supply of clean energy and meeting rising global energy demand.

Bechtel has designed, built, or provided services for 150 nuclear plants worldwide, bringing more than 76,000 megawatts of new nuclear generation capacity online. Today, our role is not just historic—it’s strategic. Bechtel delivers the projects that keep America—and the world—ahead, re-establishing U.S. leadership in nuclear at home and exporting U.S. expertise abroad as the sole  EPC partner for three AP1000® reactors in Poland.

At Georgia Power’s Vogtle plant, Bechtel delivered the first new nuclear units in the U.S. in more than 30 years, powering 1 million Georgia homes and businesses—and building a workforce of over 9,000 professionals with nuclear experience.

Bechtel is continuing to drive the next-generation of nuclear energy, from building advanced reactors with the Natrium project for TerraPower in Wyoming to safety-upgraded units like Watts Bar 2 in the Tennessee Valley—the first U.S. plant licensed to operate this century under the highest-grade of safety standards.

Bechtel is also showcasing U.S. technology leadership on the global stage, partnering with Poland to build the country’s first nuclear power plant, delivering three AP1000® units that will generate about more than three gigawatts of clean power.