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America's first nuclear plant restart may be near the finish line
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Fusion42 · 12 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Holtec International says it has completed major renovations on Michigan's Palisades nuclear plant and expects to restart the 800-megawatt reactor within months, which would be the first U.S. nuclear plant restart. The remaining work is comparable to a routine refueling outage, though the company has already missed two restart deadlines.
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If you're selling to data centres or AI trainers, there's now a proven buyer for gigawatt-scale power: an operator willing to restart shuttered plants. Holtec has just proved the model works, and a dozen more idle reactors sit waiting for the same economics.
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