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US plans to resurrect more nuclear reactors
- 2 months ago (2024-10-08)
- David Flin
Ali Zaidi, Climate Advisor to the White House, said that the current US government is working on plans to bring additional decommissioned nuclear power reactors back online to help meet rising electricity demand.
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Two such projects are already underway: the planned recommissioning of Holtec ’s Palisades nuclear plant in Michigan and the potential restart of a unit at Constellation Energy ’s Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania.
Zaidi added that there were at least two additional shuttered plants that were being considered for restarts. He didn’t identify which two shuttered plants were being considered. Zaidi said repowering existing dormant nuclear plants was part of a three-pronged strategy of President Biden’s administration to bring more nuclear power online. The other two prongs will be development of SMRs and continued development of next generation advanced nuclear reactors.
President Biden has called for a tripling of US nuclear power capacity to fuel energy demand that is accelerating in part due to the expansion of power hungry technologies like artificial intelligence and cloud computing.