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Amy Roma

Partner

Washington, D.C.

Amy is a leading authority on nuclear energy, fusion, and advanced power regulations, advising on the regulatory and commercial strategies that determine whether next generation energy projects are financed, licensed, and built.

She represents leading and emerging nuclear market participants — including reactor developers, industrial energy users, utilities, investors, and government stakeholders — on high-stakes commercialization strategy and strategic engagement with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the Department of Energy (DOE). Amy guides complex regulatory approvals, licensing proceedings, compliance matters, and investigations involving advanced reactors, small modular reactors (SMRs), microreactors, fusion systems, fuel cycle facilities, and space and defense nuclear applications.

Her practice is centered on the commercialization of first-of-a-kind energy technologies, advising companies, investors, and strategic partners on developing innovative regulatory pathways and durable commercial structures that enable deployment. She works with clients to design licensing and business strategies in parallel — aligning regulatory approvals, capital formation, investment structuring, offtake arrangements, and supply chain frameworks to bring advanced nuclear and fusion projects to market.

She also advises on strategic investments in new and existing nuclear projects, with particular focus on the unique business considerations that define the sector, including nuclear liability regimes, export controls, foreign ownership and control, and the evolving deployment landscape. Her work frequently sits at the intersection of nuclear energy with AI infrastructure, industrial decarbonization, space, and defense applications.

Recognized by the Financial Times as one of the Most Innovative Lawyers in Technology and among the top 10 Most Innovative Lawyers in North America, Amy is a trusted voice in global energy innovation. She maintains deep working relationships across DOE, NRC, DoD, State, Commerce, and NASA, and has testified multiple times before the U.S. Congress. Amy is frequently called upon to address issues of grid reliability, decarbonization, national security, and advanced energy deployment, and is consistently ranked by Chambers USA and Chambers Global for Energy: Nuclear (Regulatory & Litigation).

Amy is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Massachusetts and serves as a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center.

    • Advise reactor developers on NRC licensing strategies and applications for large light-water reactors (LWRs), small modular and advanced reactors, and microreactors, including first-of-a-kind deployment pathways. Developed the business plan and execution strategy for a leading advanced reactor project in the United States and advised a foreign reactor project on its first-of-a-kind LWR deployment.
    • Advise companies, investors, and strategic partners on nuclear and fusion transactions, including license transfers, export controls, nuclear liability regimes, contracting structures, government support mechanisms, and domestic and global deployment landscapes.
    • Counsel clients on comprehensive strategies to support the mass manufacturing and deployment of microreactors and fusion machines, integrating regulatory approvals, supply chain structuring, capital formation, and commercialization pathways.
    • Counsel fusion companies on commercialization strategy, including radioactive materials licensing, regulatory positioning, stakeholder engagement, supply chain structuring, and the parallel development of regulatory and business frameworks.
    • Guide fuel cycle companies through NRC licensing and commercialization of enrichment, fuel fabrication, recycling/reprocessing, storage, and disposal facilities, and advise across all stages of the fuel cycle — mining, milling, enrichment, fabrication, reprocessing/recycling, and spent fuel and low-level waste storage and disposal.
    • Advise on innovative uses of nuclear reactors, including space-based power systems, maritime power and propulsion, and mobile reactor deployments.
    • Prepare and manage complex NRC and Agreement State license transfers and regulatory approvals, having submitted more than 1,000 license transfer applications nationwide.
    • Advise on radiopharmaceutical licensing, compliance, and commercialization matters.
    • Represent operating nuclear facilities in complex NRC compliance and enforcement matters, including investigations, Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), and Nuclear Safety Culture/Safety Conscious Work Environment issues.