Policy and licensing / New York

New York: 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 York 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 York PSC nuclear reliability backbone process · In effect
  New York Public Service Commission, Case 26-E-0335, Order Establishing a Nuclear Reliability Backbone Process · New York Public Service Commission · affects: State programme administration
  On 11 June 2026 the New York Public Service Commission opened a process for considering a nuclear reliability backbone and told staff to file a white paper within five months. The order discusses the four reactors already operating in the state. It does not approve a new project.
  Not approved or pending: The five-month white-paper period is not converted to a date. The order does not approve a new reactor, a Nine Mile Point application, Fort Drum, or the North Tonawanda proposal. Public Authorities Law section 1005 returned HTTP 403 and was not retried. Assembly bill A.6705 was not stored in this pass.

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 York

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

• None recorded.