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 or that the proposed site certificate for the small modular reactor energy facility be submitted to the electors of this state for their approval or rejection.

Plain English Breakdown

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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 or that the proposed site certificate for the small modular reactor energy facility be submitted to the electors of this state for their approval or rejection.

Digest: Allows the siting of a power plant that uses one or more small modular reactors.

What This Bill Does

• Digest: Allows the siting of a power plant that uses one or more small modular reactors.
• Exempts the siting from certain conditions.
• (Flesch Readability Score: 63.2).
• 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 or that the proposed site certificate for the small modular reactor energy facility be submitted to the electors of this state for their approval or rejection.

Limits and Unknowns

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Official Summary Text

Digest: Allows the siting of a power plant that uses one or more small modular reactors. Exempts the siting from certain conditions. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.2).
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 or that the proposed site certificate for the small modular reactor energy facility be submitted to the electors of this state for their approval or rejection.
Relating to: Relating to small modular reactor energy facilities.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3565
Sponsored by Representative EDWARDS
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 certain conditions. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.2).
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 or that the proposed
site certificate for the small modular reactor energy facility be submitted to the electors of this state
for their approval or rejection.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to small modular reactor energy facilities.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
Section 2 of this 2025 Act is added to and made a part of ORS 469.590 to
469.601.
SECTION 2. (1) As used in this section:
(a) “Small modular reactor” means an advanced nuclear reactor:
(A) With a nameplate capacity of 300 electrical megawatts or less;
(B) That is made up of components that are factory fabricated and transported to lo-
cation for on-site assembly; and
(C) That may be constructed and operated in combination with similar reactors at a
single site.
(b) “Small modular reactor energy facility” means an energy facility that produces power
from using one or more small modular reactors at a single site.
(2) ORS 469.595, 469.597 and 469.599 do not apply to a small modular reactor energy fa-
cility.
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.
LC 4371