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 04/16/26 - Amended Assembly
 04/06/26 - Amended Assembly
 02/20/26 - Introduced

 AB-2647 Energy: nuclear powerplants: assessment.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 06/30/2026 09:00 PM

AB2647:v96#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 June 30, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 16, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 06, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 2647

Introduced by Assembly Member Calderon
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Harabedian, Lee, Ahrens, and Alanis)
(Coauthors: Senators Jones, Becker, Gonzalez, Hurtado, and Stern)

February 20, 2026

An act to add Section 25302.2 to the Public Resources Code, relating to energy. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2647, as amended, Calderon.
 Energy: nuclear powerplants: assessment.

Existing law vests the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) with the exclusive jurisdiction to certify thermal powerplants with a generating capacity of 50 megawatts or more. Existing law prohibits the Energy Commission from certifying a nuclear fission thermal powerplant, except for specified powerplants, and provides that a nuclear fission thermal powerplant, except those specified powerplants, is not a permitted land use in California unless certain conditions are met regarding the existence of technology for the construction and operation of nuclear fuel rod processing plants and of demonstrated technology or means for the disposal of high-level nuclear waste, as specified. Existing law, the 100 Percent Clean Energy Act of 2018, declares that it is the policy of the state to achieve 100 percent
 100% zero-carbon electricity by 2045.

This bill would require the Energy Commission, on or before July 1, 2027, January 1, 2028, to prepare, as provided, a comprehensive assessment of the potential role for advanced nuclear technologies in supporting critical infrastructure in California, and of the potential for new, in-state nuclear powerplants to cost-effectively meet statewide needs for new electricity resources, and to meet the expressed policy of the state described above. The bill would authorize the Energy Commission to update the assessment as appropriate. The bill would authorize the Energy Commission, the Public Utilities Commission, the Independent System Operator, and other public agencies to evaluate the potential of nuclear energy to meet
 long-term resource needs.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 In enacting this act, it is the intent of the Legislature to ensure the use of a skilled and trained workforce, as defined for purposes of Sections 25536.7 and 25536.8 of the Health and Safety Code, which is required to perform work on other dangerous industrial facilities, including petroleum refineries and chemical manufacturing facilities, also applies to the initial construction and maintenance of any new advanced nuclear reactors that may be permitted and constructed in the future, following the enactment of this act and amendments to Sections 25524.1 and 25524.2 of the Public Resources Code, to ensure public health and safety.

SEC. 2.

 Section 25302.2 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:

25302.2.

 (a) On or before July 1, 2027, January 1, 2028, as part of the integrated energy policy report or as a separate report, as determined by the commission, the commission shall prepare a comprehensive assessment of the potential role for advanced nuclear technologies in supporting critical infrastructure in California and of the potential for new, in-state nuclear powerplants to cost-effectively meet statewide needs for new electricity resources, and to meet the expressed policy of the state, pursuant to the 100 Percent Clean Energy Act of 2018 (Chapter 312
 of the Statutes of 2018), to achieve 100 percent zero-carbon electricity by 2045.

(b) In preparing the comprehensive assessment, the commission shall consider all of the following:

(1) An analysis of system costs, reliability benefits, emission impacts, deployment timelines, waste management and disposal pathways to include advanced fuel cycle technologies, environmen