Policy and licensing / Wisconsin

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

Laws, rules and executive directives

• 2015 Wisconsin Act 344: repeal of the nuclear-construction conditions · In effect
  2015 Wisconsin Act 344 · Wisconsin Legislature · affects: Siting
  2015 Wisconsin Act 344 repeals § 196.493 and removes that cross-reference from the certificate statute. The date of enactment is 1 April 2016, publication is 2 April 2016, and s. 991.11 makes it effective on 3 April 2016. Current § 1.12(4)(cm) still lists advanced nuclear energy approved by the NRC after 31 December 2010, after combustible renewables and before nonrenewable combustible resources. The repeal does not approve a plant.
  Not approved or pending: The opened act does not restate former § 196.493, and the old section URL returned HTTP 404. No certificate of public convenience and necessity is recorded. A Wisconsin location would not by itself come under this act. No governor order or commission rule was opened with it.
• 2025 Wisconsin Act 12: nuclear power siting study · In effect
  2025 Wisconsin Act 12 · Wisconsin Legislature · affects: Siting
  2025 Wisconsin Act 12 creates a Public Service Commission nuclear power siting study. The date of enactment is 2 July 2025, publication is 3 July 2025, and s. 991.11 makes it effective on 4 July 2025. The study covers nuclear and fusion generation, including small modular reactors. The report date on the opened act is an LRB insert, not a calendar day. A study is not permission to build.
  Not approved or pending: The opened act leaves the study-report date as an LRB insert, and the opened current-code page does not display a filled calendar date. No commission report, contract, or certificate was opened. The study does not approve a site. No appropriation figure is in the act.

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 Wisconsin

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

• None recorded.