Federal comment window has closed on NRC reactor licensing and siting modernization
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has proposed a wholesale revision of its reactor licensing, safety oversight and siting rules. The revision is being carried out under an executive order directing reform of the agency. Comments close August 31st, 2026. Siting rules bear directly on the new nuclear generation being proposed to serve large electrical loads in Texas.
How to take part
The comment window has closed. The proposed rule and its guidance stay on the federal docket, where anyone can read the rule text and every comment filed against it. The agency has published no final rule.
Where
Statewide. This decision applies across Texas rather than to a named county.
Timeline
- comment opens
Proposed rule published in the Federal Register
- filed
Correction to the proposed rule published in the Federal Register
- comment closes
Comment period closes
- Today
How this decision moved
One dated line per check, oldest first. A line that says nothing changed means somebody looked and it had not.
- 2026-08-19
The comment window is still open and still closes August 31st. A correction to the proposed rule was published on July 27th.
- 2026-08-22
Checked and unchanged. The published comment due date is still August 31st, 2026. The docket now carries agency responses to two separate requests to extend the comment period, and the due date has not moved.
- 2026-08-26
Checked and unchanged. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's proposed rule still carries the Executive Order 14300 framing and the comment window still closes August 31st. Five days are left on it.
- 2026-08-27
Checked and unchanged. The proposed rule still opens on the Executive Order 14300 framing and the comment window still closes August 31st. Four days are left to file.
- 2026-08-28
Checked and unchanged. The proposed rule still opens on the Executive Order 14300 framing and the Federal Register still gives August 31st, 2026 as the day comments close. Three days are left to file under docket NRC-2025-0975.
- 2026-08-29
The comment window is still open, closing August 31st. The proposal to revise the reactor licensing, oversight and siting rules is unchanged, and the docket still takes comment from anyone.
- 2026-08-30
The federal window is nearly shut. Comments on the reactor licensing and siting rewrite close August 31st, which leaves a single day to file.
- 2026-09-02
The comment window has closed. The proposed rule on reactor licensing, safety oversight and siting stays before the agency and no final rule has been published.
- 2026-09-05
The federal notice still carries its stated close and the Commission has published no next step. What it does with the comments it took is still unconfirmed.
- 2026-09-08
The federal comment window on reactor licensing and siting modernization is still shut, and the notice still reads as it did when it closed. No adopting action has been published since.
- 2026-09-09
The federal comment window on reactor licensing and siting modernization is still shut, and the notice that closed it reads as it did.
- 2026-09-12
The federal comment window on reactor licensing and siting modernization is still shut. The notice that closed it carries the same closing date it did.
- 2026-09-13
The federal window on reactor licensing and siting is still shut, and the notice's own close date has not moved.
- 2026-09-16
The federal comment window on reactor licensing and siting is still shut and the proposal is still where the closing left it. No final rule has been published.
- 2026-09-19
The comment window is still shut and the agency has published no next step out of it.
- 2026-09-24
The comment window remains closed. The proposal still reads as the record took it and no next step has been published out of it.
- 2026-09-27
The comment window stays closed. The proposal still reads as published and the commission has put out no next step from it.
- 2026-09-30
The comment window is still closed. The proposal still reads as published in the register, and no final rule has followed.
The evidence
Every fact above rests on one of these. The words are the source's own.
Consistent with Executive Order 14300, "Ordering the Reform of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission," the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is conducting a review and wholesale revision of its regulations. This proposed rule aims to modernize reactor licensing, safety oversight, and siting practicesFederal Register, Modernizing Reactor Licensing, Safety Oversight, and Siting Practices, abstract Primary source, official · federalregister.gov
"comments_close_on":"2026-08-31"Federal Register API, document 2026-14341, fields type, publication_date, comments_close_on, docket_ids Primary source, official · federalregister.gov
2026-08-31Federal Register, Modernizing Reactor Licensing, Safety Oversight, and Siting Practices Primary source, official · federalregister.gov
Questions about this decision
Answered from the record itself. Every answer is assembled from stored fields, so an answer the record has no basis for is left out rather than guessed.
What is this decision?
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has proposed a wholesale revision of its reactor licensing, safety oversight and siting rules. The revision is being carried out under an executive order directing reform of the agency. Comments close August 31st, 2026. Siting rules bear directly on the new nuclear generation being proposed to serve large electrical loads in Texas.
Who decides it?
United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Can the public take part?
The comment window on this decision has closed. The deciding body is still named on the item page and is still reachable.
Where in Texas does it apply?
It applies statewide.
Has it been decided?
It is pending. No final decision is on the record.
What happens next?
No future date is on the record. The last dated step on it was comment closes on August 31st.
When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is July 16th, 2026.
What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under defense and federal.
What sources back it?
Two sources back it. Two of them are primary.
Is it on the ERCOT grid?
No. It sits outside the ERCOT interconnection.
When was it last checked?
Every fact on it was last verified against its source on September 30th, 2026.
Cite this
Texas AI Docket, Federal comment window has closed on NRC reactor licensing and siting modernization. Tracked since July 16th, 2026. Last verified September 30th, 2026. https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0015/. Reuse permitted under CC BY 4.0 with attribution. The same entry is in the docket JSON as item tx-2026-0015.
Beat
Filed under Defense and federal, with every other decision on that beat.