Introduction

The United States has a huge and growing demand for baseload power. Meeting this demand will require an all-hands-on-deck policy approach at not only the federal level, but also the state level. However, state-level policy design has so far received limited attention. This supplement to the State Permitting Playbook seeks to correct that failure by focusing on state reforms to set the groundwork for a nationwide nuclear build-out. It identifies four areas for state-level nuclear regulatory reform: state-level moratoria and waste restrictions; uprates at existing reactors; state portfolio standard reform; and general reforms in siting, workforce preparation, and coordination with federal policy.