The Department of Energy’s nuclear power and waste portfolio would remain about flat for fiscal year 2025 and again receive unrequested funds to help commercialize advanced nuclear reactors, if a spending bill unveiled this week becomes law.
If the bill from the House Appropriations energy and water subcommittee bill is signed, DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy would get just under $1.8 billion for the 2025 fiscal year, about what it got for fiscal-year 2024 and roughly $100 million more than requested.
The subcommittee’s scheduled markup and vote on its bill Friday morning was to be webcast oneline. Subcommittee marks are typically quick, uncontroversial and done without releasing the details of the panel’s spending proposal to the public.
House appropriators typically published detailed bill reports about their bills on the eve of a full Appropriations Committee markup, which for the energy and water bill that includes DOE’s budget was scheduled for July 9.
Advanced reactors are, according to a bill summary from the subcommittee’s Republican majority, “key to regaining international dominance in the nuclear market.”
