Palisades Nuclear Plant
The first shut US reactor ever returned to service — October 2025.
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Holtec bought Palisades (800 MW) in 2022 to decommission it, then reversed course with Michigan support and a $1.52B DOE loan guarantee. The reactor reconnected to the grid in October 2025 — the first restart of a decommissioning-track US nuclear plant — proving the playbook Crane and Duane Arnold now follow. Its output serves rural cooperatives, freeing regional capacity the data-center boom is consuming.
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