Nevada prohibition on storing high-level radioactive waste

Nevada law makes it unlawful to store high-level radioactive waste in the state. The 1989 source note prints no day. The section points to a federal definition that was not opened here, and it does not license a reactor.

Category: Laws, rules and executive directives
Status: In effect
Instrument: statute · Nev. Rev. Stat. § 459.910
Issued by: Nevada Legislature
Jurisdiction: Nevada
Affects: Siting
Effective date: Not recorded
Expiry or completion: None recorded
Operative text: Nevada Revised Statutes chapter 459 (NRS chapter 459 opened 4 October 2026)
Last checked · next review: 2026-10-04 · 2027-04-15

Legal and geographic scope

It is unlawful for any person or governmental entity to store high-level radioactive waste in Nevada. The section uses the meaning of high-level radioactive waste in 10 C.F.R. 60.2. The compilation says the section was added to NRS in 1989. It does not print a day.

Not approved or still pending

This is a storage prohibition. It is not a power-reactor construction permit and it does not approve a project. The federal definition it incorporates was not opened. The utility-facility permit statute in NRS chapter 704 was opened separately and is not this record. No project is linked.

Dated lifecycle

1989 · actual · year · Enacted — The source note prints Added to NRS by 1989, 2113. No calendar day is printed. (Nevada Revised Statutes chapter 459)

Definitions in this instrument

High-level radioactive waste (NRS 459.910(2)): The section adopts the meaning ascribed to high-level radioactive waste in 10 C.F.R. 60.2. That federal section was not opened for this record.
Legal definition used by this instrument only; SMRMap's inclusion rule for SMRs is separate and unchanged.

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

Nevada Revised Statutes chapter 459 (government_primary, accessed 2026-10-04)