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Atomic Energy Advancement Act
This bill establishes various requirements to accelerate the deployment of nuclear energy technologies, such as advanced nuclear reactors.
Specifically, the bill sets forth requirements that direct the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to efficiently license and regulate nuclear energy activities. The bill also revises the NRC's hiring process to enable the NRC to respond to a severe shortage of candidates or a critical hiring need by using direct hiring for certain positions to carry out NRC's responsibilities and activities in a timely, efficient, and effective manner.
It also reduces certain licensing fees charged by the NRC for advanced nuclear reactors. Further, it authorizes the Department of Energy (DOE) to make awards that pay for certain licensing fees.
Additionally, the bill directs the NRC to promulgate a final rule that implements a process to facilitate efficient and timely environmental reviews of nuclear reactor applications.
The NRC must also develop and implement strategies to enable efficient and timely licensing reviews for, and to support the oversight of, nuclear facilities at brownfield sites, including sites with retired fossil fuel facilities.
Next, the bill sets forth requirements for expediting certain licensing decisions for new nuclear reactors that will use a previously licensed design and will be on or adjacent to a site on which a nuclear reactor already operates or previously operated.
It also authorizes DOE to establish a pilot program under which DOE may make certain long-term power purchase agreements for power generated by commercial nuclear reactors.
Finally, the bill establishes requirements concerning international nuclear energy cooperation and safety.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 6544 as passed House on Feb 28, 2024. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
House Feb 28, 2024
Atomic Energy Advancement Act
Passed · Two-thirds required
365 Yea 36 Nay 29 not voting · 1 present
Crossed both parties 36 of 401 voting members broke with their own party: 36 Democrats.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
431 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 6544 and vote against it. 1 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 6544 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
68 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-04. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.