Policy and licensing / Wyoming
Wyoming advanced nuclear reactor requirements
Wyoming's current advanced-nuclear section still requires a Nuclear Regulatory Commission license in its definition, bars on-site spent-fuel storage that does not meet Commission requirements, and limits state industrial siting where it would conflict with those requirements. Subsection (a) remains marked repealed by the 2022 act. The section does not approve a project.
- Category
- Laws, rules and executive directives
- Status
- In effect
- Instrument
- statute · Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 35-11-2101
- Issued by
- Wyoming Legislature
- Jurisdiction
- Wyoming
- Affects
- Siting
- Effective date
- Not recorded
- Expiry or completion
- None recorded
- Operative text
- Wyoming Statutes Title 35 compilation (Title 35 compilation PDF opened 4 October 2026; file date is not an effective date)
- Last checked · next review
- 2026-10-04 · 2027-04-15
Legal and geographic scope
Current Title 35 compilation. Subsection (a) and definition subparts (A) through (C) are marked repealed by Laws 2022, chapter 103, section 2. The remaining text requires Nuclear Regulatory Commission requirements before on-site storage of that reactor's spent fuel or high-level waste, says the section does not affect Commission authority, defines an advanced nuclear reactor as one that improves on reactors in service before 1 January 2021 and has a Commission license, limits the Industrial Development Information and Siting Act where it would conflict with or duplicate Commission requirements, and requires a jobs report to the department at least 30 days before construction when another named report is not required.
Not approved or still pending
The compilation does not decide whether any construction permit meets the statute's license wording. It does not approve a reactor. Tax and cost-recovery sections from the 2022 act were not in the portion stored here. The department rules were not opened. No project is linked.
Dated lifecycle
- 2022 · actual · year · Amended — The compilation marks subsection (a) and definition subparts (A) through (C) repealed by Laws 2022, chapter 103, section 2. It does not print the day. The day is on the separate 2022 session-law record. (Wyoming Statutes Title 35 compilation)
Definitions in this instrument
- Advanced nuclear reactor (W.S. 35-11-2101(d)(iii)): A nuclear reactor, including necessary ancillary facilities or structures, that is an improvement over nuclear reactors placed in service before 1 January 2021 and that has a license issued by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Legal definition used by this instrument only; SMRMap's inclusion rule for SMRs is separate and unchanged.
Related instruments
Projects or designs named by the source
- None. Location in this jurisdiction does not make a project eligible for, or approved under, this measure.
Sources
- Wyoming Statutes Title 35 compilation (government_primary, accessed 2026-10-04)