Palisades Nuclear Generating Station
Nuclear power plant in Covert, MichiganWikipedia
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Oct 30, 2026
Lloyd JacksonHOST
Whitmer urged volunteers to reach voters concerned about rising costs.
Lloyd JacksonHOST
Meanwhile, Huizenga toured the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant with Energy Secretary Chris Wright as officials work toward restarting that facility.
Lloyd JacksonHOST
Michigan Republicans waiting for a final pre-election visit from President Trump will need to tune in by phone instead.
Lloyd JacksonHOST
After canceling upcoming events, Trump's team announced he's shifting to tele-rallies across 19 states, including Michigan, for the campaign's final stretch.
Ken LundbergHOST
I'm Ken Lundberg.
Ken LundbergHOST
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright will visit the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in Covert Township today.
Ken LundbergHOST
Holtec International spokesperson Nick Culp says Wright will be joined by Congressman Bill Huizenga as Palisades prepares to become the first decommissioned nuclear power plant in the United States to return to service.
Nick CulpSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This will be the Secretary's first visit to the Palisades site.
Nick CulpSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's really about giving him an opportunity to see the tremendous progress that's being made toward restarting Palisades, showcasing our workforce and getting an opportunity to get him in front of the workers and have that sort of direct engagement.
Ken LundbergHOST
Holtec International CEO Dr. Chris Singh will also attend.
Ken LundbergHOST
Culp says the day will begin with remarks from visiting dignitaries.
Nick CulpSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So getting him into the plant to actually see workers in the field, completing the work necessary to bring the plant back online, it'll be an exciting moment for the secretary and certainly for our team.
Andrew GreenHOST
His supporters were urged to get out and knock on doors and make phone calls to urge others to vote.
Andrew GreenHOST
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright visited the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in Van Buren County's covert township this morning to celebrate progress that's been made toward the restart of the facility.
Andrew GreenHOST
Palisades owner Holtec hosted the Energy Secretary as he toured the plant alongside Congressman Bill Huizenga before meeting with employees and company leaders.
Andrew GreenHOST
Wright said the restart project is momentous.
Chris SimmsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The administration has
Chris WrightSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
been all in on launching the nuclear renaissance.
Chris WrightSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The Palisades plant here in southwestern Michigan was shut down four or five years ago, and it'll be back running before the end of this year.
Chris WrightSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
800 megawatts of additional affordable, reliable, secure energy to lower costs for Michiganders and increase job opportunities.
Kevin DietzHOST
Thank you.
Kevin DietzHOST
The Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in southwest Michigan could return to service before the end of the year.
Kevin DietzHOST
Federal officials say the shuttered plant is expected to generate approximately 800 megawatts of electricity once operations resume.
Kevin DietzHOST
The project is supported by a $1.5 billion federal loan initially approved under the Biden administration and continued under President Trump.
Andrew GreenHOST
Also tomorrow, Abdul El-Sayed will hold a meet-and-greet and canvas event in Benton Harbor at the Second Baptist Church starting at 3 p.m. We'll have a link to RSVP for that event at our website as well.
Andrew GreenHOST
Meanwhile, just a county away, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright will visit the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in Van Buren County's Covert Township tomorrow.
Andrew GreenHOST
Holtec International spokesperson Nick Culp tells us Wright will be joined by Congressman Bill Huizenga for the site stop as Palisades prepares to make history as the first decommissioned nuclear power plant in the U.S. to ever return to service.
Andrew GreenHOST
This
Nick CulpSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
will be the Secretary's first visit to the Palisades site.
Nick CulpSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's really about giving him an opportunity to see the tremendous progress that's being made toward restarting Palisades, showcasing our workforce and getting an opportunity to get him in front of the workers and have that sort of direct engagement.
Andrew GreenHOST
Dr. Chris Singe, the CEO of Holtec International, will also be on hand.
Andrew GreenHOST
Culp says the day will start with some remarks by the visiting dignitaries.
Harry ShearerHOST
Two different incidents.
Harry ShearerHOST
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission told Holtec, a company racing to reopen a shuttered reactor at the Palisades plant in Michigan, to address a, quote, chilled work environment, unquote, that has made staff hesitant to raise safety concerns without fear of retaliation.
Harry ShearerHOST
Why, I order.
Harry ShearerHOST
The warning has prompted concern among critics that financial and political pressures to revitalize nuclear power are increasing risks of accidents.
Harry ShearerHOST
This reported by the Financial Times.
Harry ShearerHOST
The NRC performed an inspection at Palisades a couple months ago over concerns about safety awareness.
Harry ShearerHOST
It followed an incident last year in which a worker fell into the reactor cavity, ingested some water, and was sent off site for medical attention.
Harry ShearerHOST
The individual was decontaminated by radiation protection personnel.
Andrew GreenHOST
In the WSJM Newsroom, I'm Andrew Green.
Andrew GreenHOST
Holtec says successful operation this week to recover a tilted fuel assembly at the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in Van Buren County has cleared the way for the resumption of refueling at the facility.
Andrew GreenHOST
The company announced last month that refueling was paused when the fuel assembly tilted from its upright position after it had been placed in the reactor vessel.
Andrew GreenHOST
Holtec spokesperson Nick Culp tells us the company's engineers then had to devise a way to remove the assembly, designing and constructing a method using teams in New Jersey and Pennsylvania throughout the course of about two weeks.
Nick CulpSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We designed a specialized fuel movement device, an FMD, that would support the control lifting and transfer of the assembly.
Nick CulpSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
essentially removing it from the vessel, and then placed that assembly into a fuel transfer canister that was then lifted out of the reactor.
Andrew GreenHOST
Culp says once a plan was approved by the NRC, Palisades staff trained around the clock for Wednesday's operation.
Andrew GreenHOST
The job of moving a fuel assembly is not easy.
DonHOST
The United States is making an unprecedented attempt to revive three shuttered nuclear plants to meet rising energy demand, including from large-scale data centers.
DonHOST
no commercial nuclear reactor is known to have resumed generating electricity after beginning the decommissioning process that takes one out of service though some reactors have restarted after long outages The Department of Energy is lending as much as $4.4 billion to restart the Palisades Power Plant in Michigan, the Crane Clean Energy Center on Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island, and the Duane Arnold Energy Center in Iowa to restore a combined 2.25 gigawatts of electricity which can power roughly 2 million homes and businesses.
DonHOST
All three of the plants closed before their licenses expired, largely because the electricity they produced was considered too expensive.
DonHOST
Not anymore.
Andrew GreenHOST
Indiana-Michigan Power told us the company is glad to support the canine program because it will help keep the community safe.
Andrew GreenHOST
Holtec says that a successful operation this week to recover a tilted fuel assembly at the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in Van Buren County has cleared the way for the resumption of refueling at the facility.
Andrew GreenHOST
The company announced last month that refueling was paused when the fuel assembly tilted from its upright position after it had been placed in the reactor vessel.
Andrew GreenHOST
Holtec spokesperson Nick Culp tells us the company's engineers then had to devise a way to remove the assembly, designing and constructing a method using teams in New Jersey and Pennsylvania throughout the course of about two weeks.
Nick CulpSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
designed a specialized fuel movement device, an FMD, that would support the control lifting and transfer of the assembly, essentially removing it from the vessel.
Nick CulpSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It then placed that assembly into a fuel transfer canister that was then lifted out of the reactor
Andrew GreenHOST
Culp says once a plan was approved by the NRC, Palisades staff trained around the clock for yesterday's operation.
Andrew GreenHOST
The job of moving a fuel assembly is not easy.
Andrew GreenHOST
In the WSJM newsroom, I'm Andrew Green.
Andrew GreenHOST
Holtec International says it has successfully recovered a tilted fuel assembly at the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in Covert Township, removing an obstacle to the plant's planned restart.
Andrew GreenHOST
Back in September, Holtec revealed that during the fuel loading at the plant, one fuel assembly tilted from its upright position after it had been placed and that the fuel handling machine disengaged.
Andrew GreenHOST
The NRC this month granted approval to a plan from Holtec to right the tilted fuel assembly, and on Wednesday, the company announced that its plan worked.
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