DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palisades" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palisades</span></a> power plant will restart. Here's where on the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreatLakes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreatLakes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPlants</span></a> operate </p><p>Story by Sarah Moore, Lansing State Journal, 2/27/2025</p><p>"Owners of Michigan's Palisades nuclear energy plant this week announced a new five-year program aimed at restarting the power station while adding two smaller, modular reactors to the existing facility.</p><p>"Holtec has launched 'Mission 2030,' a program to build America’s first small modular reactors — Holtec’s SMR-300 — at the Palisades site in Covert Township, Michigan, with a target of 2030 for first commercial operation.' Holtec International said in a release. "The new SMR-300s will be co-located with the existing 800-megawatt Palisades plant, which is on track to restart after an extended outage following shutdown in 2022.'</p><p>"The program was discussed at a ceremony Feb. 25, at which <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Holtec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Holtec</span></a> said it has joined forces with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hyundai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hyundai</span></a> Engineering &amp; Construction to build a 10-gigawatt fleet of SMR-300s in North America, the release said.</p><p>"Nuclear energy production is seeing growing interest for power generation because it requires no fossil fuels and can help reduce greenhouse gases. The systems, however, generate tons of highly <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadioactiveWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadioactiveWaste</span></a> that has to be stored. In <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Michigan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Michigan</span></a>, waste is stored within a short distance of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreatLakes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreatLakes</span></a> in some locations."</p><p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/palisades-power-plant-will-restart-heres-where-on-the-great-lakes-nuclear-plants-operate/ar-AA1zUV7D" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">msn.com/en-us/news/us/palisade</span><span class="invisible">s-power-plant-will-restart-heres-where-on-the-great-lakes-nuclear-plants-operate/ar-AA1zUV7D</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RethinkNotRestart</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Renewables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Renewables</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewablesNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RenewablesNow</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadioactivePollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadioactivePollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HoltecLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HoltecLies</span></a></p>