Indiana Executive Order 25-48: Nuclear Indiana Coalition

Indiana Executive Order 25-48, issued 10 April 2025 according to the state's own annual report, directs the Secretary of Energy and Natural Resources to establish the Nuclear Indiana Coalition to advance nuclear energy and small modular reactors in the state. It does not license, fund or site a reactor.

Category: Laws, rules and executive directives
Status: In effect
Instrument: executive order · Indiana Executive Order 25-48 (10 April 2025)
Issued by: Governor of Indiana
Jurisdiction: Indiana
Affects: State programme administration
Effective date: Not recorded
Expiry or completion: None recorded
Operative text: Indiana Executive Order 25-48 (order PDF) (Order PDF opened 5 October 2026; first page readable)
Last checked · next review: 2026-10-05 · 2027-04-15

Legal and geographic scope

Executive order titled Creating Economic Opportunity and Securing Indiana's Energy Future Through Advanced Nuclear Development. It directs the Secretary of Energy and Natural Resources to establish the Nuclear Indiana Coalition as an ongoing effort to advance nuclear energy and small modular reactors in Indiana and to attract supply partners. The coalition is to explore federal programmes that reduce deployment cost, address regulatory constraints and coordination with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, engage developers, utilities and large electricity consumers, develop state-level policies and assess feasibility, streamline permitting, including pursuing state primacy on federal permitting programmes, and provide education and outreach. The order number and the signature date are not legible in the copy opened; the Office of Energy Development's December 2025 annual report gives the number and an issue date of 10 April 2025. The text after the start of the coalition's membership list was not readable.

Not approved or still pending

The order creates a coalition and directs coordination. It does not license, fund or site a reactor. Pursuing state primacy on federal permitting is a direction to pursue it, not a grant of primacy. No effective date separate from the issue date was read. No project is linked.

Dated lifecycle

10 Apr 2025 · actual · day · Issued — Issue date as reported; no signature date was read. The Office of Energy Development's December 2025 annual report says Executive Order 25-48 was issued on 10 April 2025. The order copy opened does not print a legible date, and no separate effective date was read. (Indiana Office of Energy Development: annual report of the Nuclear Indiana Coalition under Executive Order 25-48 (December 2025))

Projects or designs named by the source

None. Location in this jurisdiction does not make a project eligible for, or approved under, this measure.

Sources

Indiana Executive Order 25-48 (order PDF) (government_primary, accessed 2026-10-05)
Indiana Office of Energy Development: annual report of the Nuclear Indiana Coalition under Executive Order 25-48 (December 2025) (government_primary, accessed 2026-10-05)