Executive Order 14302: Reinvigorating the Nuclear Industrial Base

What the order contains

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• Sec. 1. Purpose
• Sec. 2. Policy
• Sec. 3. Strengthening the Domestic Nuclear Fuel Cycle
• Sec. 4. Funding for Restart, Completion, Uprate, or Construction of Nuclear Plants
• Sec. 5. Expanding the Nuclear Energy Workforce
• Sec. 6. Other Provisions
• Sec. 7. General Provisions

Section 1, quoted from the order

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The United States originally pioneered nuclear energy technology during a time of great peril. We now face a new set of challenges, including a global race to dominate in artificial intelligence, a growing need for energy independence, and access to uninterruptible power supplies for national security. It took nearly 40 years for the United States to add the same amount of nuclear capacity as another developed nation added in 10 years. Further, as American deployment of advanced reactor designs has waned, 87 percent of nuclear reactors installed worldwide since 2017 are based on designs from two foreign countries. At the same time, the Nation's nuclear fuel cycle infrastructure has severely atrophied, leaving the United States heavily dependent on foreign sources of uranium as well as uranium enrichment and conversion services. These trends cannot continue. […]

Federal Register notes

See: EO 13603, March 16, 2012; EO 14278, April 23, 2025