The $17.5 Billion Reactor Loan Program 2026: Westinghouse's Five-Site Bet and How Subcontractors Get on the Prequal List First

Washington just put $17.5 billion in conditional loans behind a plan to build ten large reactors across five sites - the biggest single push to restart American large-reactor construction in a generation. Who has to put up a billion dollars in equity before a shovel moves, which regions get the work, and the prequalification move every civil, concrete, mechanical, and electrical sub should make before the EPCs lock up the bid list.