Nuclear

The nuclear industry’s complex regulatory framework and rapidly evolving and dynamic political, financial and technological landscape means that businesses need legal advice that goes beyond consent, compliance and governance.

Working across the nuclear industry in multiple jurisdictions, our specialist nuclear energy lawyers provide comprehensive and commercial advice. 

You’ll benefit from our expert nuclear capability and industry experience, built over years of supporting nuclear decommissioning, operations and new build in both the civil and defence sectors. We provide practical and commercial advice to clients having regard to the consenting, procurement, regulatory, compliance and governance considerations specific to the nuclear industry across both the state controlled and private sectors.

Whether you’re negotiating or delivering contracts in nuclear new build, on an existing operating fleet or through decommissioning to site end state we can provide support on all aspects of the nuclear lifecycle, including site assembly, strategy, procurement, appointment of contractors, professional services agreements, outsourcing contracts, transfer schemes and agreements dealing with obsolete plant. Due to our global network and highly specialised teams, we are able to offer practical and creative solutions in the most complex national, cross-border and intra-governmental environment.

Whether it be in relation to new build, plant life extension or decommissioning, our team is actively involved in developing and negotiating construction procurement strategies in the UK and Europe, across both conventional nuclear and fusion energy projects; providing a tiered contract approach under the industry preferred contracting approaches of NEC3 and FIDIC.

We’ve advised on major decommissioning, waste transportation and storage projects in the UK and Europe and the application of export controls relevant to the nuclear industry and its intellectual property/know how.

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