Kentucky Chapter 51 of 2025: nuclear energy development grant appropriation

Kentucky's 2025 chapter 51, signed 24 March 2025, lets the University of Kentucky use $8,000,000 of a quasi-endowment in fiscal year 2025-2026 for the Nuclear Energy Development Grant Program. A separate $2,000,000 laser line is not part of that program. No grant award is recorded, and the act does not permit a plant.

Category: Laws, rules and executive directives
Status: In effect
Instrument: statute · 2025 Ky. Acts ch. 51
Issued by: Kentucky General Assembly
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Affects: Project funding
In effect from: 24 Mar 2025 · actual · day
Expiry or completion: None recorded
Operative text: Kentucky Acts chapter 51 (2025), nuclear energy development (Chapter 51 PDF opened 4 October 2026)
Last checked · next review: 2026-10-04 · 2027-04-15

Legal and geographic scope

Session law amending a University of Kentucky quasi-endowment appropriation. Of $20,000,000 in each fiscal year, $8,000,000 may be used in fiscal year 2025-2026 for the Nuclear Energy Development Grant Program. A separate $2,000,000 is dedicated to a laser and photonics program and is not a nuclear grant. Interest on the investment supports administration of the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority. An emergency clause makes the act effective upon passage and approval. The act does not award a grant or permit a plant.

Not approved or still pending

The $8,000,000 figure is permission to use part of the university quasi-endowment in fiscal year 2025-2026. The opened act does not print the calendar end of that fiscal year, and no official Kentucky fiscal-year definition was in the opened texts, so no expiry date is stored. No grant award and no recipient are recorded. The $2,000,000 laser and photonics line is not nuclear funding. No project is linked. The act does not approve a reactor.

Dated lifecycle

24 Mar 2025 · actual · day · Signed — The act prints Signed by Governor March 24, 2025. The emergency clause says the act takes effect upon passage and approval by the Governor or upon its otherwise becoming a law. (Kentucky Acts chapter 51 (2025), nuclear energy development)

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

Kentucky Acts chapter 51 (2025), nuclear energy development (government_primary, accessed 2026-10-04)