Nuclear renaissance

Turning the nuclear renaissance into industrial reality

Reliable, sustainable and low-carbon, nuclear energy is experiencing a global resurgence.

Across the world, energy leaders are accelerating commitments to nuclear power to strengthen energy security, support economic growth and achieve decarbonization goals. Investment is increasing, new technologies are emerging, and the industry is entering a new phase of expansion.

Meeting this growing demand will require organizations to overcome several critical challenges. Industry leaders must be able to:

  • Deliver new capacity faster
  • Modernize existing assets
  • Strengthen increasingly complex supply chains
  • Scale the next generation of nuclear technologies
  • Harness AI and digital technologies as trusted enablers of safety, quality, performance and compliance

All of these challenges must be met while maintaining the highest standards of regulatory compliance.

With expertise across multiple fields, Capgemini helps you turn your nuclear ambitions into industrial reality.

Empowering the nuclear renaissance

Discover how Capgemini turns nuclear ambition into scalable reality.

Leaders in engineering, digital, AI and transformation

Across every stage of the nuclear lifecycle, organizations face common challenges: delivering increasingly complex capital programs, scaling engineering capacity, managing vast volumes of technical and regulatory data, and maintaining the highest standards of safety and compliance.

Capgemini helps address these challenges by combining four complementary strengths:

  • Capital project excellence, combining project controls and delivery expertise to improve delivery predictability, strengthen governance and reduce execution risk
  • Digital continuity connecting engineering, project and operational data across the asset lifecycle
  • Applied AI helping organizations improve engineering productivity, strengthen regulatory readiness and accelerate decision-making
  • Global delivery and transformation capabilities helping organizations scale expertise, accelerate delivery and build long-term resilience

Our nuclear capabilities

From new-build programs and fleet modernization to fuel-cycle transformation and decommissioning, we bring a global team of over 2,500 nuclear specialists to help turn your goals into reality.

Accelerating new builds

We bring together consulting, engineering and digital capabilities to help clients build faster, reduce risk and improve project performance.

Nuclear plants are among the most carefully regulated and complex construction projects in the world. Delivering them successfully requires strong project controls, resilient supply chains and effective collaboration across owners, EPCs, regulators and suppliers.

We help you:

  • Accelerate and de-risk project delivery, from plant design through construction and commissioning
  • Strengthen engineering, configuration and interface management across complex programs
  • Improve supply-chain performance and collaboration across owners, EPCs, regulators and partners
  • Increase cost, schedule and compliance predictability through project controls, digital delivery and connected data

By combining capital project excellence, digital continuity and AI-enabled engineering approaches, we help improve execution certainty, reduce late-stage changes and accelerate project delivery.

Whether a plant was commissioned five years ago or fifty, opportunities remain to improve performance, reliability and long-term value.

Operators must maximize availability today while investing in modernization, maintenance and lifecycle extension strategies that will keep assets operating safely for decades to come.

We help you:

  • Modernize operations and maintenance models to improve performance and availability
  • Plan and execute maintenance and lifecycle-extension programs
  • Manage asset health, obsolescence, and knowledge transfer to preserve long-term operational excellence
  • Connect engineering, maintenance and operational data while modernizing critical systems and documentation

By combining engineering expertise, connected asset intelligence and AI-enabled analytics, we help operators optimize maintenance strategies, improve availability, extend asset life and reduce lifecycle risk.

As global demand for nuclear energy grows, fuel-cycle organizations face increasing pressure to improve efficiency, increase production capacity and prepare for future technologies.

We support you across the fuel cycle by helping you:

  • Improve the performance and resilience of fuel manufacturing and processing facilities
  • Plan investments, maintenance and lifecycle-extension strategies
  • Develop next-generation fuel-cycle facilities, fuels and recycling technologies
  • Strengthen traceability, industrial data management and AI-enabled operational visibility

Our integrated engineering, data, digital and AI approach helps increase capacity, resilience and long-term competitiveness across the fuel cycle.

Every nuclear facility eventually reaches the end of its operational life.

We help you plan and execute decommissioning programs safely, efficiently and responsibly, while maximizing opportunities for material recovery, reuse and waste optimization.

Our capabilities include:

  • Advanced decommissioning planning, engineering and cost forecasting
  • Decontamination support, waste traceability and circular-economy approaches
  • Digital characterization, robotics and remote operations to improve safety and execution efficiency

By combining engineering expertise, digital technologies and advanced analytics, we help improve planning accuracy, reduce worker exposure and strengthen control over long-term risks and costs.

The next generation of nuclear innovation.

SMRs have the potential to transform nuclear deployment through greater flexibility, standardization and scalability. But turning promising designs into commercially successful programs requires more than technology innovation.

Success depends on robust supply chains, industrialized delivery models, workforce readiness and execution excellence.

We help organizations:

  • Accelerate design maturity, readiness and deployment planning
  • Develop resilient supply chains and manufacturing capabilities
  • Standardize designs and establish repeatable deployment models
  • Build the foundations for industrial-scale deployment through digital and AI-enabled engineering

From concept through commercialization, we help establish the engineering, digital, AI and delivery capabilities required to scale SMR programs with confidence.

Delivering the nuclear industry of tomorrow

The next era of nuclear growth will be defined by execution.

Success will depend on the ability to industrialize delivery while maintaining uncompromising standards of safety, quality and regulatory compliance.

Organizations that succeed will be those able to deliver complex capital programs more predictably, strengthen increasingly sophisticated supply chains, scale scarce engineering capabilities and harness AI and digital technologies as trusted enablers of safety, quality and performance.

Beyond productivity gains, AI can help nuclear organizations improve engineering quality, strengthen regulatory readiness, accelerate document processing, enhance maintenance performance, improve supply-chain visibility and reduce execution risk across major capital programs.

Capgemini helps clients build these capabilities at scale by combining deep industry expertise, capital project excellence, AI-enabled digital continuity and global delivery capabilities across the entire nuclear lifecycle.

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      Meet our experts

      Claire Gauthier

      Claire Gauthier

      Executive Vice President and Global Energy & Utilities Leader at Capgemini
      Claire brings over 20 years of experience driving transformation across the energy sector. Her expertise spans power and utilities, oil & gas, renewables, and emerging technologies across five continents. Claire leads five strategic pillars—Integrated Power, Operational Excellence, Nuclear Renaissance, Capital Projects, and Value Chains of the Future —helping organizations navigate disruption and accelerate the shift to sustainable, technology-enabled solutions. Her global perspective and leadership helps turn innovation into real-world impact for clients worldwide.
      Denis Bourguignon

      Denis Bourguignon

      CTO Nuclear Activities
      “As Chief Technology Officer for Capgemini Engineering’s nuclear activities, I am thrilled to be at the forefront of transforming the future of clean energy. Our team is pioneering innovative solutions that harness the power of nuclear technology to build a sustainable, carbon-free world. Together, we are redefining the boundaries of what’s possible and driving the energy revolution of tomorrow”
      Sven Sers

      Sven Sers

      Global Nuclear Industry Leader at Capgemini
      Sven brings more than 15 years of experience driving growth and transformation across the nuclear sector. His expertise spans engineering transformation, workforce development, knowledge management and AI adoption across the nuclear value chain. Sven helps organizations address some of the industry’s most critical challenges, from capability expansion and industrial performance to the delivery of new nuclear programs. His international perspective and industry leadership help turn innovation into tangible business and operational outcomes.