Policy and licensing / Minnesota

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

Laws, rules and executive directives

• Minnesota Statutes § 216B.243, subdivision 3b: nuclear certificate of need · In effect
  Minn. Stat. § 216B.243, subd. 3b · Minnesota Legislature · affects: Siting
  Minnesota's current certificate-of-need statute says the commission may not issue a certificate of need to construct a new nuclear-powered electric generating plant. The prohibition was signed on 10 May 1994 and took effect the next day. A 2003 amendment is recorded by year only. The bar is not limited to small modular reactors and is not an NRC decision.
  Not approved or pending: No Minnesota commission order finding an exception was opened. 2026 c. 47, shown on the same code page, amends subdivision 8 rather than subdivision 3b. No award, appropriation, or project approval is in this section. Minnesota has no tracked site in this dataset, and geography would not create a link.

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 Minnesota

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

• None recorded.