In addition to a big federal loan, the company that owns the closed plant wants $300 million from Michigan taxpayers to reopen. Some bipartisan legislators back the idea.
I've tracked the Palisades Nuclear Plant since it was first being constructed - a troubled process. During the construction phase, the Utility, then known as Consumers Power, sued the contractor, Bechtel, saying that defects in the construction process rendered the facility, one attorney told me - "a dangerous instrumentality".Nonetheless, Palisades, sited on the Michigan shore…
VERNON One of the most recognizable buildings at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant site, the pale green, metal-clad turbine building, is starting to be demolished.
Beth LeBlanc and Carol Thompson, The Detroit News 13 Apr 23 Lansing The Florida-based owner of a shuttered nuclear power plant on the shores of Lake Michigan is asking the State of Michigan for roughly $300 million in taxpayer assistance to help it restart operations at the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station. Holtec International approached a…