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Power Project
Palisades Nuclear Plant
The first shut US reactor ever returned to service: October 2025.
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…
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Company
Holtec International
The company that did the 'impossible': restarting the Palisades reactor.
Holtec bought Palisades for decommissioning, then reversed course and returned it to service in October 2025, the first restart of a shut US nuclear plant, with a DOE loan and Michigan support. Its SMR-300 program and spent-fuel business round out a unique nuclear franchise.
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