Executive Order 14299 explained · Executive Order · No disposition noted
Deploying Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies for National Security
Signed: 2025-05-23 Published: 2025-05-29 Federal Register document: 2025-09796
Agencies: Executive Office of the President
What Executive Order 14299 says
Federal Register, Volume 90 Issue 102 (Thursday, May 29, 2025) [Federal Register Volume 90, Number 102 (Thursday, May 29, 2025)] [Presidential Documents] [Pages 22581-22586] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2025-09796] Presidential Documents Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 102 / Thursday, May 29, 2025 / Presidential Documents ___________________________________________________________________ Title 3-- The President [[Page 22581]] Executive Order 14299 of May 23, 2025 Deploying Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies for National Security By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Background. The United States faces a critical national security imperative to ensure a resilient, secure, and reliable energy supply for critical defense facilities designated under section 824o-1(c) of title 16, United States Code, and other mission capability resources. Advanced computing infrastructure for artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities and other mission capability resources at military and national security installations and national laboratories demands reliable, high-density power sources that cannot be disrupted by external threats or grid failures. These facilities and resources' vulnerability to energy disruption...
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Constitutionally sound
Graded 2026-10-08
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Constitutional deployment of federal defense authority to federal property: Commander in Chief and federal property powers support reactors on military and energy department sites, with no rights infringement, no taking, and no improper centralization.
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✓ Passes · Enumerated powers
President acts under Article II, Section 1 vesting of executive power and Article II, Section 2 as Commander in Chief and authority over national defense installations, directing the Secretary of Defense and Secretary of the Army to power critical defense facilities. Use and designation of Department of Energy sites rests on Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2 authority over property belonging to the … -
✓ Passes · Bill of Rights
No provision directs or authorizes infringement of speech, religion, press, assembly, arms, quartering, search and seizure, self-incrimination, trial rights, jury rights, or punishment. Order is confined to siting, authorizing, and operating reactors on Department of Defense and Department of Energy property and powering defense and artificial intelligence infrastructure. It creates no surveillanc… -
✓ Passes · Individual sovereignty
Order restricts no person in use of their own person, property, speech, labor, or belief. It enables private-sector investment and deployment on federal sites and leverages excess federal fuel stocks. Any burden falls on the government to build and regulate safely, while private participation is voluntary through authorized projects, so no compelling-justification test is triggered. -
✓ Passes · Decentralization
Nuclear reactors on military installations and national laboratories cannot be handled by individuals, families, counties, or states acting alone because of technical scale, security classification, interstate effects, and exclusive federal jurisdiction over defense property. Retaining decisions at the federal level for federal enclaves is the minimum necessary level under the Tenth Amendment, not… -
✓ Passes · Due process and takings
Order requires recommendations for legislative proposals and regulatory actions, coordination with the Office of Management and Budget, and use of all available legal authorities consistent with applicable law, preserving procedural due process under the Fifth Amendment. It directs use of federally owned excess uranium and plutonium and privately funded reactors on federally owned or controlled si…
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