Policy and licensing / Hawaii

Hawaii: 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 Hawaii as everywhere in the United States and are listed once on the federal page. They are not counted here.

Laws, rules and executive directives

• Hawaii Constitution article XI, section 8: nuclear fission plants · In effect
  Haw. Const. art. XI, § 8 · Hawaii Constitutional Convention and electorate · affects: Siting
  Hawaii's constitution requires a two-thirds vote of each legislative house before a nuclear fission power plant is constructed or radioactive material is disposed of in the state. The official text ties that section to the 7 November 1978 election.
  Not approved or pending: The section does not itself approve a plant. HRS section 269-91 returned HTTP 403 and was not retried. A 2025 Hawaii State Energy Office report was opened and recommends no constitutional or renewable-portfolio amendment and no legislation; it is not a second instrument here. No project is linked.

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 Hawaii

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

• None recorded.