Policy and licensing / Indiana

Indiana: SMR policy and licensing

Policy and licensing pilot: selected federal measures and selected state measures for Texas and Indiana, chosen for their relevance to tracked projects. This is not a complete list of laws, rules or programmes for any jurisdiction, and a jurisdiction without a page here has not been reviewed. Nothing here ranks places or implies that a project is eligible for, or approved under, any measure.

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

Laws, rules and executive directives

• Indiana Code 8-1-8.5-12.1: small modular nuclear reactor certificates · In effect
  IC 8-1-8.5-12.1 (SEA 271 of 2022, amended by SEA 176 of 2023) · Indiana General Assembly · affects: Utility cost recovery, State programme administration
  Indiana's definition and certificate framework for small modular reactors, amended in 2023. The current official code text was not retrieved; the agency copy read predates the 2023 amendment.
  Not approved or pending: Approves no reactor; a utility needs an IURC certificate and NRC licences for any project.
• Indiana SEA 423 (2025): SMR pilot programme and partnerships · In effect
  Senate Enrolled Act 423 (2025) · Indiana General Assembly · affects: Utility cost recovery
  Signed on 1 May 2025. The IURC describes a partnership framework for utility-led SMR projects. Its effective date was not established from the sources read.
  Not approved or pending: Any project still needs an IURC order and NRC licences; none is recorded here.
• Indiana SEA 424 (2025): SMR development cost recovery · In effect
  Senate Enrolled Act 424 (2025) · Indiana General Assembly · affects: Utility cost recovery
  Signed on 10 April 2025. The IURC describes it as a cost-recovery mechanism for SMR development costs led by a utility. Its effective date was not established from the sources read.
  Not approved or pending: Cost recovery needs a utility petition and an IURC order; none is recorded here.

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 Indiana

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

• None recorded.