BOSTON—Congress this decade has passed bipartisan bills chiseling back regulatory and financial hurdles hampering nuclear reactor development, such as 2024’s ADVANCE Act, while President Donald Trump in May issued four executive orders aimed at quadrupling the nation’s nuclear energy capacity by 2050.
Unless states follow through with reciprocal urgency, little of this federal momentum will matter beyond the Beltway, nuclear energy experts and industry leaders warn.
The good news is “states are taking action,” Nuclear Energy Institute Executive Director of New Nuclear Marc Nichol said during a first-day panel presentation at the Aug. 4–6 National Conference of State Legislatures 2025 Summit in Boston….