Company: BWXT
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form Type: 10-K/A
Source: 0001486957-25-000015
Chunk: 47

Company: BWX Technologies, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form: 10-K/A
Chunk 47
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 management and cybersecurity, are under consideration or being adopted, which may include specific, target-driven disclosure requirements or obligations. Our response will require increased costs to comply, the implementation of new reporting processes, entailing additional compliance risk, a skilled workforce and other incremental investments.

Limitations or modifications to indemnification regulations of the U.S. or foreign countries could adversely affect our business.

The Price-Anderson Act partially indemnifies the nuclear industry against liability arising from nuclear incidents in the U.S., while ensuring compensation for the general public. The Price-Anderson Act comprehensively regulates the manufacture, use and storage of radioactive materials, while promoting the nuclear industry by offering broad indemnification to commercial nuclear power plant operators and DOE contractors. Because we provide nuclear fabrication and other services to the DOE relating to its nuclear devices, facilities and other programs and the nuclear power industry in the ongoing maintenance and modifications of its nuclear power plants, including the manufacture of equipment and other components for use in such nuclear power plants, we expect, in the event of a nuclear incident or precautionary evacuation (as such terms are defined in the Atomic Energy Act), to be entitled to the indemnification protections under the Price-Anderson Act against liability arising from nuclear incidents occurring in the U.S. (with an available indemnification amount of approximately $16.5 billion) and in foreign countries (with an available indemnification amount of $2 billion). The statutory authority for indemnification under the Price-Anderson Act has been extended by Congress five times, most recently through December 2065 by Section 107 to the Further Consolidated Appropriations Action, 2024 (Public Law 118-47, March 23, 2024).

We also provide nuclear fabrication and other services to the nuclear power industry in Canada and other countries. Canada's NLCA generally conforms to international conventions and is conceptually similar to the Price-Anderson Act in the U.S. Accordingly, indemnification protections and the possibility of exclusions under Canada's NLCA are similar to those under the Price-Anderson Act in the U.S.

The Price-Anderson Act and Canada's NLCA indemnification provisions may not apply to all liabilities that we might incur while performing services as a contractor for the DOE and the nuclear power industry. If an incident, damages or evacuation is not covered under the indemnification provisions of the Price-Anderson Act or Canada's NLCA, we could be held liable for damages, in some cases regardless of fault, which could have an adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations. In connection with