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I've tracked the Palisades Nuclear Plant since it was first being constructed - a troubled process. During the construction phase, the Utility, then known as Consumers Power, sued the contractor, Bechtel, saying that defects in the construction process rendered the facility, one attorney told me - "a dangerous instrumentality".Nonetheless, Palisades, sited on the Michigan shore…
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A company hopes to restore a dead nuclear power plant to life for the first time in the U.S. The Palisades plant in southwestern Michigan closed in May 2022. It was sold to Holtec, a company that dismantles shuttered nuclear plants. But Holtec is developing plans to restart Palisades. Officials say they were motivated by a Biden administration initiative to keep aging nuclear plants going and by support from Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Nuclear is a key part of the administration's plan to rid the U.S. of greenhouse gas emissions causing global warming. Anti-nuclear activists say Palis...
Holtec Decommissioning International is looking to restore the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station. This would be the first time this has been done in the history of the U.S.
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — A company that tears down closed nuclear power plants wants to do in Michigan what has never been done in the U.S.: restore a dead one to life. Holtec Decommissioning International bought the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station last June for the stated purpose of dismantling it,