Amy Roma is one of the leading nuclear energy lawyers in the United States, with deep experience across nuclear regulatory strategy, project commercialization, licensing, fuel-cycle issues, advanced reactors, SMRs, microreactors, fusion, space, maritime, defense, and AI-related energy infrastructure. Her work sits at the intersection of nuclear energy, advanced technology, federal regulation, capital formation, and commercial deployment.
Amy represents leading and emerging nuclear market participants, including reactor developers, industrial energy users, utilities, investors, strategic partners, and government stakeholders. She advises on high-stakes commercialization strategy, NRC and DOE engagement, complex regulatory approvals, licensing proceedings, compliance matters, nuclear liability regimes, export controls, foreign ownership and control issues, and the business structures required to move first-of-a-kind nuclear and fusion projects from concept to deployment.
A core strength of Amy’s practice is integrating regulatory strategy with the broader commercial architecture of a project. She works with clients to align licensing pathways, capital formation, investment structuring, offtake arrangements, supply-chain frameworks, government support mechanisms, and project execution so nuclear projects are not merely licensable, but financeable, buildable, and scalable. Her experience spans the full nuclear landscape, from large light-water reactors and existing fleet matters to advanced reactors, microreactors, fusion systems, enrichment, fuel fabrication, recycling and reprocessing, storage, disposal, and radioactive-material applications.
Amy’s work is especially relevant to AmForge’s nuclear fuel security and reserve-structure work. She brings the legal, regulatory, commercial, and strategic judgment required to structure nuclear fuel-cycle projects that can attract capital, satisfy federal requirements, manage liability and export-control risk, and support deployment for AI, defense, utilities, industrial energy users, and other strategic power consumers. Her background strengthens AmForge’s ability to translate nuclear-fuel strategy into executable commercial structures across DOE, NRC, DoD, State, Commerce, NASA, investors, project developers, and industrial counterparties.
Amy is consistently recognized by Chambers USA and Chambers Global for nuclear energy regulatory and litigation work and has been recognized by the Financial Times among the most innovative lawyers in technology and North America. She has testified multiple times before Congress on nuclear energy and fusion matters and serves as a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center and as a Senior Fellow in Nuclear at Tulane University’s Energy Law & Policy Center.