Policy and licensing / North Carolina

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

Laws, rules and executive directives

• North Carolina G.S. 166A-29: fixed nuclear facility emergency-planning fee · In effect
  N.C. Gen. Stat. § 166A-29 · North Carolina General Assembly · affects: State programme administration
  North Carolina charges an annual emergency-planning fee, and a second radiation-protection fee, for each fixed nuclear facility that produces electricity and is in the state or has a plume emergency-planning zone partly in the state. The opened text sets minimums and leaves the payment schedule to the Department of Public Safety.
  Not approved or pending: No Department of Public Safety fee schedule or assessment order was opened. No project is linked. The fee does not authorize construction.
• North Carolina G.S. 62-133.8: clean energy portfolio standard · In effect
  N.C. Gen. Stat. § 62-133.8 · North Carolina General Assembly · affects: State programme administration
  North Carolina's current clean-energy portfolio statute counts nuclear energy facilities, including uprates, and fusion energy facilities as clean energy. It is not a small-modular category and it does not grant a construction certificate or a federal license.
  Not approved or pending: Session Law 2025-25 was not opened. The current certificate section amended by Session Law 2023-138 was not opened, and the session-law display mixes struck and inserted certificate text, so that change is not restated as current law. No Utilities Commission order was opened. No project is linked. The portfolio standard does not approve a reactor.

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 North Carolina

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

• None recorded.