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KY SCR66
Concurrent Resolution
AI Summary
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Urges the University of Kentucky and University of Louisville to explore participation in the U.S. Department of Energy's Nuclear Energy University Program
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Encourages both universities to expand curricula with courses and degree paths to train workers for constructing and operating next-generation nuclear energy facilities
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Encourages collaboration with the U.S. Department of War (likely referring to Department of Energy/Defense) to explore nuclear energy-related grant funding and research opportunities
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Builds on Kentucky's 2017 lifting of the moratorium on new nuclear power facility construction (Senate Bill 11) and the Nuclear Energy Development Working Group's recommendations
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Notes that both universities' cancer centers already use radioactive isotopes in radiopharmaceuticals, and 25 university research reactors exist nationwide, including in neighboring states Missouri, Indiana, and Ohio
Legislative Description
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville to explore opportunities to participate in federal nuclear-related programs and to expand their curricula to offer courses and degree paths to train the workforce that will construct and operate the next generation of nuclear energy facilities.
Education, Higher
Last Action
3rd reading, adopted 37-0
3/13/2026