83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 996
Sponsored by Senator SMITH DB
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: Allows the siting of a power plant that uses one or more small modular reactors. Ex-
empts the siting from the law that requires there to be a place for radioactive waste to be disposed
of before a nuclear power plant may be sited in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.6).
Allows the siting and operation of a small modular reactor energy facility without requiring that
there be a licensed repository for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste.
1 A BILL FOR AN ACT
2 Relating to small modular reactor energy facilities.
3 Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
4 SECTION 1. Section 2 of this 2025 Act is added to and made a part of ORS 469.590 to
5 469.601.
6 SECTION 2. (1) As used in this section:
7 (a) “Small modular reactor” means an advanced nuclear reactor:
8 (A) With a nameplate capacity of 300 electrical megawatts or less;
9 (B) That is made up of components that are factory fabricated and transported to lo-
10 cation for on-site assembly; and
11 (C) That may be constructed and operated in combination with similar reactors at a
12 single site.
13 (b) “Small modular reactor energy facility” means an energy facility that produces power
14 from using one or more small modular reactors at a single site.
15 (2) ORS 469.595 and 469.599 do not apply to a small modular reactor energy facility.
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NOTE: Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
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