Executive Order 14301: Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the Department of Energy

What the order contains

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• Sec. 1. Purpose
• Sec. 2. Definitions
• Sec. 3. Findings
• Sec. 4. Reforming the National Laboratory Process for Reactor Testing
• Sec. 5. Establishing a Pilot Program Outside the National Laboratories
• Sec. 6. Streamlining Environmental Reviews
• Sec. 7. Implementation
• Sec. 8. General Provisions

Section 1, quoted from the order

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The United States led the development of civilian nuclear power through the Atomic Energy Commission, the National Reactor Testing Station (now known as Idaho National Laboratory), and several other Federal Government entities. This work produced safe and abundant energy. But in the decades since, commercial deployment of new nuclear technologies has all but stopped. The Idaho National Laboratory has principal responsibility for constructing and testing new reactor designs; it concluded construction of new reactors in the 1970s. Our proud history of innovation has succumbed to overregulated complacency. […]

Federal Register notes

See: EO 14154, January 20, 2025; EO 14156, January 20, 2025; EO 14299, May 23, 2025