Policy and licensing / South Carolina
South 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 South 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
- South Carolina Base Load Review Act · In effect
S.C. Code Ann. §§ 58-33-210 to 58-33-280 (Base Load Review Act) · South Carolina General Assembly · affects: Utility cost recovery
The official South Carolina code still prints the Base Load Review Act and also prints a 2018 editor's note that bars a new base load review application, other than a docket then pending, and says the article is repealed when specified V.C. Summer abandonment litigation concludes. The printed plant definition covers new coal or nuclear units of at least 350 megawatts gross. It is not a small modular reactor category. The 2018 act and the litigation record were not opened.
Not approved or pending: 2018 Act No. 258 and 2018 Joint Resolution 285 were not opened as separate documents. No court record was opened, so the compilation's statement that Article 4 is repealed when the V.C. Summer Units 2 and 3 abandonment litigation concludes is not a finding that the litigation has ended. 2007 Act No. 16 was not opened beyond the text and history printed on the chapter page. No project is linked. The article does not approve a reactor. - South Carolina section 58-33-196: advanced nuclear study costs · In effect
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-33-196 · South Carolina General Assembly · affects: Utility cost recovery
South Carolina's official code encourages utilities to study fusion and advanced nuclear facilities, including small modular facilities, and allows recovery of study costs if the commission finds the estimates reasonable, prudent and in the public interest. The same section keeps the certificate requirement before construction. It is not limited to small modular reactors and it does not approve a facility. The enrolled 2025 act was not opened separately.
Not approved or pending: Enrolled 2025 Act No. 41 was not opened, so the act's other sections are not restated except for the editor's note printed on this page. That note quotes Section 33 findings about a mix of long-lead resources that may include nuclear and advanced nuclear, biomass, hydrogen-capable resources and fusion. Section 12-63-20 was not opened. No commission order, certificate docket or appropriation was opened. No project is linked. The section 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 South Carolina
Listed by project location only. The South Carolina measures above do not license reactors; the NRC does.
- None recorded.