Policy and licensing / United States (federal)
Executive Order 14299: advanced reactors for national security
Directive to federal agencies, signed 23 May 2025. It sets agency goals; it does not license or approve any particular reactor.
- Category
- Laws, rules and executive directives
- Status
- In effect
- Instrument
- executive order · Executive Order 14299, 90 FR 22581 (signed 23 May 2025)
- Issued by
- President of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- United States (federal)
- Affects
- DOE test-reactor authorization, Siting
- In effect from
- 2025-05-23
- Expiry or completion
- None recorded
- Operative text
- Federal Register 90 FR 22581 (29 May 2025): Executive Order 14299, Deploying Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies for National Security (Federal Register)
- Last checked · next review
- 2026-10-03 · 2026-11-02
Legal and geographic scope
Directs the Departments of Energy and Defense on deploying advanced reactors at federal and military sites, including an Army-regulated reactor at a domestic base by 30 September 2028 and a goal of operating an advanced reactor at the first DOE-designated site within 30 months.
Not approved or still pending
Agency actions under the order are separate; none is recorded here as complete.
Dated lifecycle
- 2025-05-23 · Signed (Federal Register 90 FR 22581 (29 May 2025): Executive Order 14299, Deploying Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies for National Security)
- 2025-05-29 · Published (Federal Register 90 FR 22581 (29 May 2025): Executive Order 14299, Deploying Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies for National Security)
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
- Federal Register 90 FR 22581 (29 May 2025): Executive Order 14299, Deploying Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies for National Security (government_primary, accessed 2026-10-03)