Policy and licensing / Texas

Texas: SMR policy and licensing

Policy and licensing pilot: selected federal measures and selected state measures for Texas and Indiana, chosen for their relevance to tracked projects. This is not a complete list of laws, rules or programmes for any jurisdiction, and a jurisdiction without a page here has not been reviewed. Nothing here ranks places or implies that a project is eligible for, or approved under, any measure.

Federal measures apply in Texas as everywhere in the United States and are listed once on the federal page. They are not counted here.

Laws, rules and executive directives

• TANEO grant rules (10 TAC chapter 331) · In effect
  10 TAC §§331.1-331.9, 331.20, 331.21, 331.30-331.32 (adopted, Texas Register 13 March 2026) · Texas Advanced Nuclear Energy Office · affects: Project funding
  TANEO's grant rules took effect on 19 March 2026 after a January proposal. They set how grants are applied for and decided; they award nothing themselves.
  Not approved or pending: No grant recipient is recorded; the rules do not license or approve any reactor.
• Texas HB 14 (2025): Texas Advanced Nuclear Energy Office and development fund · In effect
  89(R) HB 14; Texas Government Code chapter 483 · Texas Legislature · affects: Project funding, State programme administration
  Texas law signed on 20 June 2025 and effective 1 September 2025. It creates a state nuclear office and fund; it does not license or approve any reactor, which remains the NRC's role.
  Not approved or pending: Grants depend on the fund's rules and award decisions; none is recorded here.

Bills, proposed rules and consultations

• None recorded in this pilot.

Funding and support programmes

• Texas Advanced Nuclear Development Fund · In effect
  Texas Government Code chapter 483 (HB 14, 2025) · Texas Advanced Nuclear Energy Office · affects: Project funding
  TANEO says $350 million is appropriated to the fund's programmes and its requests for applications have closed. No grant recipient was listed on 3 October 2026.
  Not approved or pending: No awards recorded: TANEO listed no grant recipients as of 3 October 2026.

No award or selection recorded.

NRC permissions and applications for tracked projects located in Texas

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

Construction permission

• Dow Long Mott construction permit application — Long Mott Generating Facility (Xe-100 at Dow Seadrift)
  Construction permission · Under review · NRC · submitted 2025-03-31 · docket 50-614 · 90 FR 24428 · 91 FR 53900
  Long Mott Energy's construction permit application, dated 31 March 2025, was accepted and docketed by the NRC. The Commission scheduled a hearing session for 22 September 2026; no permit decision is recorded here. The May 2026 environmental finding for an exemption is not a permit.
  Sources: Federal Register 90 FR 24428 (10 Jun 2025): Long Mott Generating Station construction permit application; Federal Register 91 FR 53900 (20 Aug 2026): Long Mott Generating Station notice of hearing; NRC / ANS Dow Long Mott Xe-100 EA-FONSI
• ACU Molten Salt Research Reactor construction permit — Natura MSR-1 demonstration at Abilene Christian University
  Construction permission · Issued / approved · NRC · decided 2024-09-16 · permit CPRR-124 · docket 50-610 · ADAMS ML24243A040 · 89 FR 77197
  The NRC issued construction permit CPRR-124 to Abilene Christian University on 16 September 2024 for a non-power molten salt research reactor of up to 1 MWth in the Dillard Science and Engineering Research Center on its Abilene campus. Operation needs a separate operating licence.
  Sources: Federal Register 89 FR 77197 (20 Sep 2024): ACU Molten Salt Research Reactor construction permit; Federal Register 89 FR 18678 (14 Mar 2024): ACU Molten Salt Research Reactor environmental assessment