America's first nuclear plant restart may be near the finish line

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. 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.