Policy and licensing / New Jersey

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

Laws, rules and executive directives

• New Jersey P.L. 2026, chapter 9: nuclear facility permit finding · In effect
  N.J. P.L. 2026, c.9 (S3870) · New Jersey Legislature · affects: Siting, Environmental review
  New Jersey P.L. 2026, chapter 9 amends the permit section on approval of a nuclear electricity generating facility. The commissioner shall not approve construction and operation unless the stated radioactive-waste finding is made. The opened chapter is not limited to small modular reactors and it is not a reactor license. The prior section text was not opened.
  Not approved or pending: The text of C.13:19-11 as it stood before this amendment was not opened, so the words this chapter changed are not separately recorded. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission standards named in the finding were not opened. No commissioner decision and no project were opened. The act 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 New Jersey

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

• None recorded.