The US administration is establishing a new framework outlining actions that the US government can take to expand nuclear capacity in the United States. This includes domestic nuclear energy deployment targets with the long-term goal to deploy 200 GW of net new nuclear energy capacity by 2050, which would correspond to tripling the current nuclear capacity (102 GW at the end of 2023). The net capacity gains would come from the construction of new nuclear power plants, the upgrade of existing reactors, and the restart of reactors that have retired for economic reasons. In the short term, the United States aims to have 35 GW of new nuclear capacity (operational or under construction) by 2035 and to ramp to a sustained pace of producing 15 GW per year in the United States by 2040 (in US and global project developments).
The framework outlines over 30 specific actions across nine key pillars, including the construction of large gigawatt-scale reactors, of small modular reactors (SMRs) and of microreactors, the development of component supply chains and fuel cycle supply chains, and the management of spent nuclear fuel.
The US administration expects this nuclear programme to support the goal of achieving a net-zero emissions economy by no later than 2050.
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