Recommissioning & Restarts

Holtec International holds out hope that it will receive a major chunk of change from the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office to help restart the shuttered Palisades Nuclear Generating Station in Michigan by 2025, a spokesperson said Thursday. The company expects DOE to make a decision in “late January/Early February at the earliest,” the […]

In the first courtroom action for a lawsuit opposing a life extension of California’s last nuclear plant, federal judges on Wednesday asked if the case belonged in their court and whether keeping it there could unleash a tide of new environmental lawsuits. “I’m trying to decide the floodgate here,” said Circuit Judge Consuelo Callahan, an […]

A group of environmentalists trying to block a life extension for the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant were scheduled to have their day in court Wednesday. Oral arguments in the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena, Calif., were set for 9:00 a.m. Pacific time, or 12:00 p.m. Eastern time. The proceedings were to […]

Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff will review environmentalists’ claims that Holtec Decommissioning International illegally paid for the upkeep of Michigan’s Palisades Nuclear Plant with funds intended to pay for the plant’s teardown, the commission said this week. The NRC the referred groups’ “concerns that Holtec has misused the decommissioning trust fund to the Executive Director for […]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission this week said it accepted Pacific Gas & Electric’s application to extend the operating license of the Diablo Canyon Power Plant in California. The decision, announced in a Federal Register notice, officially begins what could be a contentious, year-long, federal review of California’s plan to keep nuclear power alive in the Golden […]

A group of lawmakers recently urged the Department of Energy to speed up its consideration of Holtec International’s request for a large federal loan to restart the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station in Michigan. “[W]e urge the Department of Energy to give its fair, full, and swift consideration to the application,” the bipartisan, nine-member bloc of […]

Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff will review environmentalists’ claims that Holtec Decommissioning International illegally paid for the upkeep of Michigan’s Palisades Nuclear Plant with funds intended to pay for the plant’s teardown, the commission said this week. The NRC the referred groups’ “concerns that Holtec has misused the decommissioning trust fund to the Executive Director for […]

A group of lawmakers recently urged the Department of Energy to speed up its consideration of Holtec International’s request for a large federal loan to restart the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station in Michigan. “[W]e urge the Department of Energy to give its fair, full, and swift consideration to the application,” the bipartisan, nine-member bloc of […]

Environmentalists have no right to a hearing over Holtec International’s plans to restart the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station in Michigan, but they might soon, Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff said Friday. Palisades shut down in 2022 but Holtec, which bought the plant from Entergy to decommission, is now trying to restart it. The company needs a […]

Holtec International this week asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to dismiss an antinuclear group’s attempt to block regulatory action needed to restart the Palisades Nuclear Plant. Holtec on Monday asked the commission secretary to deny a Dec. 5 petition by three antinuclear groups who want a hearing about the company’s Sept. 28 request for an […]

Holtec International this week asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to dismiss an antinuclear group’s attempt to block regulatory action needed to restart the Palisades Nuclear Plant. Holtec on Monday asked the commission secretary to deny a Dec. 5 petition by three antinuclear groups who want a hearing about the company’s Sept. 28 request for an […]

The most expensive item needed to restart the Palisades Nuclear Plant in Michigan is a new steam generator that will cost half a billion dollars, according to a federal grant application from Holtec International obtained by an antinuclear group and distributed Monday to the media. The Washington-based group Beyond Nuclear obtained Holtec’s 42-page application for […]

The most expensive item needed to restart the Palisades Nuclear Plant in Michigan is a new steam generator that will cost half a billion dollars, according to a federal grant application from Holtec International obtained by an antinuclear group and distributed Monday to the media. The Washington-based group Beyond Nuclear obtained Holtec’s 42-page application for […]

Holtec International made its first filing with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to support a restart of the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station in Covert, Mich., the company announced Friday. Holtec on Sept. 28 asked the NRC for relief from a commission regulation that forbids refueling a shuttered reactor that has been emptied in preparation for decommissioning. […]

Holtec International is creating a new subsidiary to switch back on the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station in Michigan in less than two years, company executives told Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff Tuesday at agency headquarters in Rockville, Md. The new operating company will eventually employ about 500 people, including more than 200 who are working on […]

Holtec International is creating a new subsidiary to switch back on the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station in Michigan in less than two years, company executives told Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff Tuesday at agency headquarters in Rockville, Md. The new operating company will eventually employ about 500 people, including more than 200 who are working on […]

Executives with Holtec’s decommissioning arm were scheduled to meet Tuesday with Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff to continue a discussion about potentially restarting the shuttered Palisades Nuclear Generating Station. The meeting at NRC headquarters in Rockville, Md., was to begin at 1:00 p.m. Eastern time and run until 3:00 p.m. Eastern time, according to a notice […]

Two electric cooperatives would purchase electricity generated by the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station in Michigan if the plant restarts, plant owner Holtec International said this week in a statement. If Palisades restarts, something Holtec has said could happen in August 2025, if everything goes according to the company’s unprecedented plan, Wolverine Power Cooperative will purchase […]

Two electric cooperatives would purchase electricity generated by the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station in Michigan if the plant restarts, plant owner Holtec International said Tuesday in a statement. If Palisades restarts, something Holtec has said could happen in August 2025, if everything goes according to the company’s unprecedented plan, Wolverine Power Cooperative will purchase two […]

Dominion Energy South Carolina applied with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to extend the life of the Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station’s Unit 1 nuclear reactor for another 20 years, to Aug. 6, 2062.  The commission posted the plant operator’s application online on Tuesday. The application is dated Aug. 17. Located in Jenkinsville, S.C., Unit 1 […]

The Department of Energy did not make an Aug. 29 target to announce the winner, or winners, of the second round of a federal bailouts to buoy financially ailing nuclear power plants. “DOE has not yet made any announcements around Award Cycle 2,” a spokesperson for the agency’s Office of Grid Deployment wrote in an […]

The Department of Energy did not make an Aug. 29 target to announce the winner, or winners, of the second round of a federal bailouts to buoy financially ailing nuclear power plants. A spokesperson for DOE’s Office of Grid Deployment did not immediately respond to a query asking how many applications the agency had received […]

The shuttered Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in Michigan could restart in about two years, plant owner Holtec International told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in a public meeting Tuesday. The date will depend among other things on whether Holtec, Jupiter, Fla., can get a billion-dollar loan from the Department of Energy, but it may also depend […]

The shuttered Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in Michigan could restart in about two years, plant owner Holtec International told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in a public meeting Tuesday. The date will depend among other things on whether Holtec, Jupiter, Fla., can get a billion-dollar loan from the Department of Energy, but it may also depend […]

Holtec International planned to meet with Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff Aug. 29 to discuss what the company says is the biggest regulatory hurdle to restarting the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station. The commission posted a notice of the meeting online Tuesday. Executives with Holtec International will join members of the NRC’s Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation and Office […]

Holtec International planned to meet with Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff Aug. 29 to discuss what the company says is the biggest regulatory hurdle to restarting the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station. The commission posted a notice of the meeting online Tuesday. Executives with Holtec International will join members of the NRC’s Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation […]

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) on Monday signed into law a state budget that would conditionally provide $150 million to restart the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station in Covert county. The funding, about half of what plant owner Holtec International says it needs from the state, is contingent on the federal Department of Energy providing a […]

The Department of Energy is still considering how and whether it will help bail out a shuttered power plant in Michigan, a senior agency official testified this week in Congress. Plant owner Holtec International, Jupiter, Fla., seeks a roughly $1 billion loan for DOE and said this spring that the federal agency could conditionally approve […]

The Department of Energy is still considering how and whether it will help bail out a shuttered power plant in Michigan, a senior agency official testified Tuesday in Congress. Plant owner Holtec International, Jupiter, Fla., seeks a roughly $1 billion loan for DOE and said this spring that the federal agency could conditionally approve the […]

Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), up for reelection in 2024, touted her opposition to Yucca Mountain in a press release listing her contributions to the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act. The bill, Rosen, wrote in her presser, has “Zero dollars authorized for defense nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain.” Yucca, which Nevada politicians have effectively stonewalled, […]