Power Plant O&M Services - Nuclear: Market Size & Forecast 2026

The global power plant O&M services market for nuclear assets sits at approximately USD 55 billion in 2025 (base year), growing at 3.2 percent CAGR through 2032 to reach roughly USD 68.5 billion. The market operates in a structurally tight supply state: demand from life-extension programmes across the US, French, and Japanese fleets collides with a concentrated supplier panel and a skilled-labor pipeline that has not kept pace with plant-ageing. The dominant supply-demand state is tight-and-rising, with outage-cycle bottlenecks setting spot pricing for specialty contractor services. > **Analyst Take.** The right sequence is not to chase the lowest labor-hour rate but to lock in a qualified vendor panel before the 2026-2028 outage cycle. Buyers who delay specialist-contractor qualification will pay a 10-15% outage premium when capacity tightens. The single-unit operator cohort is the most

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