Policy and licensing / Iowa

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

Laws, rules and executive directives

• Iowa Executive Order 17: Nuclear Energy Task Force · In effect
  Iowa Executive Order Number Seventeen (5 January 2026) · Governor of Iowa · affects: State programme administration
  On 5 January 2026 the governor signed an order creating an advisory Nuclear Energy Task Force. The order says it applies prospectively as of its effective date and does not state that day. It does not approve a reactor or spend money.
  Not approved or pending: The signature day is not stored as the effective date. The task force's later advice was not opened. The order does not permit a plant or appropriate money. No project is linked.
• Iowa House File 2757: nuclear generation tax treatment and workforce fund · In effect
  2026 Iowa Acts, House File 2757 · Iowa General Assembly · affects: Project funding
  Governor Reynolds approved House File 2757 on 1 June 2026. The act creates sales and use tax exemptions and refunds for commencing or restarting a nuclear electric generation facility and a nuclear energy workforce fund controlled by the board of regents. The opened PDF does not state a calendar effective date.
  Not approved or pending: No effective date, repeal date, or appropriation dollar amount is stored. The act does not certificate a plant. Iowa Code chapter 476A was fetched and is not part of this record.

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 Iowa

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

• None recorded.