Policy and licensing / United States (federal)
Gen III+ SMR selections of May 2026: early site permits and supply chain
DOE selected eight companies on 14 May 2026 for more than $94 million in cost-shared funding, including two early site permit efforts whose sites the announcement does not name.
- Category
- Awards and selections
- Status
- Selected — award terms not recorded as final
- Instrument
- award · DOE Gen III+ SMR selections of eight companies, 14 May 2026
- Issued by
- U.S. Department of Energy
- Jurisdiction
- United States (federal)
- Affects
- Project funding, Siting
- In effect from
- —
- Expiry or completion
- None recorded
- Operative text
- DOE awards $94 million to eight companies for SMR deployment (14 May 2026) (DOE announcement)
- Last checked · next review
- 2026-10-03 · 2026-11-02
Legal and geographic scope
Selections of eight companies for more than $94 million in federal cost-shared funding: Constellation SMR Development and Nebraska Public Power District to pursue NRC early site permits (for a location in New York and a location in Nebraska), and six supply-chain projects (BWXT, Container Technologies Industries, Framatome U.S. Government Solutions, Global Nuclear Fuel Americas, American Forgemasters, Scot Forge).
Not approved or still pending
Selections are not disbursements, and an early site permit effort is not a permit; no SMRMap project is linked because the announcement names a state, not a site.
Dated lifecycle
- 2026-05-14 · Selections announced (DOE awards $94 million to eight companies for SMR deployment (14 May 2026))
Related instruments
- DOE Generation III+ Small Modular Reactor programme (award under)
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
- DOE awards $94 million to eight companies for SMR deployment (14 May 2026) (government_primary, accessed 2026-10-03)