Power Plant MRO - Nuclear Outage Services: Market Size & Forecast 2026

The global nuclear power plant outage services market sits at approximately USD 14.5 billion in 2025 (base year), expanding to roughly USD 19.3 billion by 2032 on a 4.2 percent CAGR. This is a compliance-anchored category: roughly two-thirds of outage spend is mandated by regulatory frameworks (NRC 10 CFR 50.65 Maintenance Rule, ASME Section XI inservice inspection intervals, IAEA NS-G-2.6) rather than discretionary. The typical PWR refueling outage runs 25-35 days at a daily economic cost exceeding USD 1,000,000 per reactor, which creates an extreme incentive for execution certainty over price competition. > **Analyst Take.** The call is to structure every outage procurement as a bundled, multi-cycle LTSA rather than a series of tactical RFPs. Utilities that re-procure outage services reactor-by-reactor, cycle-by-cycle, leave 8-12 percent of value on the table against providers who can

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