Policy and licensing / California

California: SMR policy and licensing

Selected federal measures and selected state measures whose official text was opened. This is not a complete list of laws, rules or programmes for any jurisdiction. A state without a page here is not a finding that it has no policy, and these pages do not rate or prefer any state. Nothing here implies that a project is eligible for, or approved under, any measure.

Federal measures apply in California as everywhere in the United States and are listed once on the federal page. They are not counted here.

Laws, rules and executive directives

• California Public Resources Code § 25524.1: reprocessing condition · In effect
  Cal. Pub. Res. Code § 25524.1 (amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 1145, Sec. 16) · California Legislature · affects: Siting
  California's current code conditions land-use permission and commission certification for nuclear fission thermal powerplants that require reprocessing of fuel rods. The 1994 amendment took effect on 1 January 1995. Named existing units are excepted. This is not an SMR-only statute and it does not approve a reactor.
  Not approved or pending: The opened code does not record a commission finding that the reprocessing conditions are met or unmet. It does not certify or approve any plant. A California location does not bring a tracked project under this section.
• California Public Resources Code § 25524.2: waste-disposal condition · In effect
  Cal. Pub. Res. Code § 25524.2 (amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 1145, Sec. 17) · California Legislature · affects: Siting
  California's current code conditions land-use permission and commission certification for a nuclear fission thermal powerplant on a high-level-waste disposal finding and a report to the Legislature. The 1994 amendment took effect on 1 January 1995. Named existing units are excepted. This is not an SMR-only statute and it does not approve a reactor.
  Not approved or pending: The opened code does not record a commission finding that the waste-disposal condition is met or unmet. It does not approve any plant. A California location does not bring a tracked project under this section.

Bills, proposed rules and consultations

• None recorded in this pilot.

Funding and support programmes

• None recorded in this pilot.

NRC permissions and applications for tracked projects located in California

Listed by project location only. The California measures above do not license reactors; the NRC does.

• None recorded.