Company: HVIIR
Filing Date: 2025-12-23
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001493152-25-029121
Chunk: 347

Company: Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII
Filing Date: 2025-12-23
Form: S-4
Chunk 347
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 industrial complexes, enabling the Company to deliver contracted power as load is brought online.

Strategic Collaboration with an Energy Major.To execute its complex commercial strategy, ONE Nuclear has entered into a Strategic Collaboration Agreement with one of the energy majors. This partnership provides ONE Nuclear with access to the major’s sophisticated energy trading capabilities, risk management desks, and deep relationships with industrial energy consumers. The energy major will act as the market interface, managing fuel supply hedging for the gas fleet and optimizing the sale of any excess capacity into the merchant market, allowing ONE Nuclear to focus on asset development and operation.

Nuclear Operations

The Opportunity

The U.S. nuclear industry is facing a severe human-capital crisis. After decades of stagnation, more than half of today’s licensed operators are approaching retirement, while the emerging SMR and advanced reactor build-out will require thousands of new, highly trained personnel. Utilities and new developers lack both the institutional knowledge and the training infrastructure to meet this demand, especially under stringent NRC licensing requirements. Furthermore, next-generation digital control rooms and distributed SMR fleets require operational models very different from the legacy, single-site utility paradigm. This mismatch between soaring workforce needs and limited training capacity is now one of the largest bottlenecks to U.S. nuclear deployment. Developers seeking to build new reactors increasingly view operator training, licensing, and operational readiness as critical path risks—both financially and regulatorily—creating a multibillion-dollar services opportunity for a scalable, compliant, and high-quality nuclear workforce platform.

ONE Nuclear is exploring a joint
venture (the “JV”) with Quadrant Nuclear Industries (“QNI”) to solve this gap by commercializing
the Navy-proven Systematic Approach to Training (“SAT”) and leveraging one of the only scalable pipeline of nuclear-qualified
talent: U.S. Navy veterans. QNI is led by former Vice Admiral of the U.S. Navy, Dee Mewbourne, and built on Navy nuclear propulsion culture.
The JV plans to offer centralized SAT-as-a-Service, turnkey workforce development programs producing 600–800 certified operators
per plant, contract operations with performance-based incentives, continued education, and advisory services. This would transform operator
training from a cost center into a revenue-generating, defensible business that would help de-risk ONE Nuclear’s own projects while
establishing the Company as a leader in the emerging global nuclear services market.

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Value Proposition

The JV’sunique value proposition lies in its centralized approach to training, which is structured around the NRC-mand