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This bill requires the Minnesota Commissioner of Commerce to conduct a comprehensive study on advanced nuclear technology reactor power generation, examining its potential costs, benefits, and impacts across multiple dimensions. The study must specifically assess how advanced nuclear technology could affect Minnesota's greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals, system costs for ratepayers, system reliability, environmental considerations, local job creation, and economic development. Additionally, the study will evaluate current state statutes and administrative rules that might need modification to enable advanced nuclear reactor construction and operation, and explore the economic feasibility of replacing coal-fired boilers with advanced nuclear reactors while accounting for the avoided costs of coal plant closures. The commissioner is mandated to submit the study results to legislative committee chairs and ranking minority members by January 31, 2026, and the bill appropriates $150,000 from the general fund in fiscal year 2026 as a one-time allocation to support the study's development and reporting.

Agriculture and Natural Resources

https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=Senate&f=SF1435&ssn=0&y=2025