Company: BWXT
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form Type: 10-K/A
Source: 0001486957-25-000015
Chunk: 17

Company: BWX Technologies, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form: 10-K/A
Chunk 17
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 among others. These projects are sponsored and funded through internal research and development and by a number of commercial and government customers.

We charge the costs of research and development unrelated to specific contracts as incurred. Excluding customer-sponsored research and development, the majority of our activities in this area for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022 related to the development of technologies in the area of medical and industrial radioisotopes, radiopharmaceuticals, additive and autonomous manufacturing, advanced reactors and nuclear fuel. Contractual arrangements for customer-sponsored research and development can vary and include contracts, cost-sharing arrangements, cooperative agreements and grants.

See Note 1 to our consolidated financial statements included in this Report for further information on research and development.

#### Hazard Risks and Insurance
Our operations present risks of injury to or death of people, loss of or damage to property and damage to the environment. We have created loss control systems and processes to assist us in the identification and treatment of the hazard risks presented by our operations, and we endeavor to make sure these systems are effective.

As loss control measures will not always be successful, we seek to establish various means of funding losses and transferring financial liability related to incidents or occurrences. We primarily seek to do this through contractual protections, including waivers of consequential damages, indemnities, caps on liability, liquidated damages provisions and access to the insurance of other parties. We also procure insurance, operate our own captive insurance company and establish funded and/or unfunded reserves. However, none of these methods will eliminate all risks.

Depending on competitive conditions, the nature of the work, industry custom and other factors, we may not be successful in obtaining adequate contractual protection from our customers and other parties against losses and liabilities arising out of or related to the performance of our work. The scope of the protection may be limited, may be subject to conditions and may not be supported by adequate insurance or other means of risk financing. In addition, we may have difficulty enforcing our contractual rights with others following a material loss.

Similarly, insurance for certain potential losses or liabilities may not be available or may only be available at a cost or on terms we consider not to be economical. Insurers frequently react to market losses by ceasing to write or severely limiting coverage for certain exposures. Risks that we have frequently found difficult to cost-effectively insure against include, but are not limited to, property losses from wind, flood and earthquake events, nuclear hazards, war, pollution liability (including per- and polyfluoroalk