Policy and licensing / Maine

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

Laws, rules and executive directives

• Maine Title 35-A, § 4302: nuclear construction referendum · In effect
  Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 35-A, § 4302 · Maine Legislature · affects: Siting
  Maine's current statute requires a statewide voter referendum before construction of any nuclear power plant. The section was enacted in 1987 and amended in 1999; the days are not on the opened page. A favorable vote is proclaimed by the Governor. The requirement is not limited to small modular reactors and does not approve a reactor.
  Not approved or pending: The opened section does not record that a referendum has been held or that the Governor has proclaimed a result. It does not approve a plant. No Maine site is tracked in this dataset.

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 Maine

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

• None recorded.