Kentucky legislation · 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky SCR66: A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville to explore opportunities to participate in federal nuclear-related programs and to expand their curricula to offer courses and degree paths to train the workforce that will construct and operate the next generation of nuclear energy facilities.
Status: Signed into law, April 23, 2026
Urge the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville to explore opportunities to participate in the United States Department of Energy's Nuclear Energy University Program and to extend their curricula to offer courses and degree paths to train the workforce that will construct and operate the next generation of nuclear energy facilities; encourage the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville to collaborate with the United States Department of War to explore possible nuclear energy-related grant funding and research opportunities.
What the bill says
A concurrent resolution urging the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville to explore opportunities to participate in federal nuclear-related programs and to expand their curricula to offer courses and degree paths to train the workforce that will construct and operate the next generation of nuclear energy facilities.
From the introduced text:
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville to explore opportunities to participate in federal nuclear-related programs and to expand their curricula to offer courses and degree paths to train the workforce that will construct and operate the next generation of nuclear energy facilities. WHEREAS, with the passage of Senate Bill 11 in 2017, the General Assembly lifted the moratorium on the construction of new nuclear power facilities that had been in place for decades; and WHEREAS, interest in developing the nuclear energy ecosystem in Kentucky has never been greater for many reasons, including but not limited to the momentum created by the convening of the Nuclear Energy Development Working Group and the recommendations it produced for the establishment of the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority; and WHEREAS, the emergence of promising new nuclear technologies, including small modular reactors, may be useful in a range of applications in the Commonwealth; and WHEREAS, there is increasing need for new baseload energy generation to be sited in the Commonwealth in order to maintain the resiliency and reliability of the electric grid; and WHEREAS, there are 25 university research nuclear reactors located across the United States, including at universities in the neighboring states of Missouri, Indiana, and Ohio; and WHEREAS, universities with research nuclear reactors and universities that …