Policy and licensing / Pennsylvania

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

Laws, rules and executive directives

• Pennsylvania Radiation Protection Act section 402.1: small modular reactor and microreactor fees · In effect
  Radiation Protection Act, Act of July 10, 1984, P.L. 688, No. 147, § 402.1 · Pennsylvania General Assembly · affects: State programme administration
  Pennsylvania's official compilation of the Radiation Protection Act adds section 402.1 for reactors the statute defines as a microreactor (100 MWe nameplate or less) or a small modular reactor (400 MWe nameplate or less). A person who already holds an NRC construction permit or operating license for such a reactor on a Pennsylvania site pays the Department $10,000 to $50,000 per site, plus two further bands of the same size for emergency-response planning and for nonagency equipment, planning, training, and exercises. The fee is per site regardless of reactor count. The compilation says those payments are deposited into the Radiation Protection Fund and the named emergency-response funds and are appropriated for the act's duties. The official act page says Act 37 of 2026 is effective in 60 days and does not print the calendar day. The fee does not grant the federal permit. Those megawatt definitions are the statute's, not SMRMap's inclusion rule.
  Not approved or pending: The act page prints Effective 60 DAYS and does not print a calendar day, so no effective date is stored and the 30-day payment clock is not dated. The fee applies only to a person who already holds an NRC construction permit or operating license; it does not grant that permit. No implementing fee regulation was opened. No project is linked. Governor, commission, and siting sources for Pennsylvania were not opened 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 Pennsylvania

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

• None recorded.