Policy and licensing / Kansas
Kansas: 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 Kansas as everywhere in the United States and are listed once on the federal page. They are not counted here.
Laws, rules and executive directives
- Kansas nuclear generation facility siting permit · In effect
K.S.A. 66-1,158 and 66-1,159 · Kansas Legislature · affects: Siting
Kansas requires a Corporation Commission permit before an electric utility starts site preparation or construction of a nuclear generation facility, using a definition that excludes several nearby and out-of-state cases. The 2025 compilation's last history line is the 2007 session law, effective 1 July on that line.
Not approved or pending: The permit requirement does not issue a permit. The 30-to-180-day hearing window is not a calendar date. The governor's executive-order page returned HTTP 403 and was not retried. No Kansas project is linked. - Kansas property-tax exemption for certain new electric generation, including nuclear · In effect
K.S.A. 79-266 · Kansas Legislature · affects: State programme administration
Kansas exempts qualifying new electric generation property, including nuclear generation, from property tax from the start of construction and for 10 taxable years after completion. Renewable conversion is excluded. The exemption is not a permit to build.
Not approved or pending: This is a property-tax exemption, not an appropriation, a grant, or a construction permit. The 10-year period runs per property after completion. It is not a sunset of the statute. Sections 79-257 and 79-258, cited for discontinuation of certain exemptions, were not opened. 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 Kansas
Listed by project location only. The Kansas measures above do not license reactors; the NRC does.
- None recorded.