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https://www.freep.com/story/news/lo...clear-plant-nuclear-power-energy/73115767007/COVERT TOWNSHIP — Thanks to federal funding announced Wednesday, the Palisades nuclear facility in Michigan is poised to be the first shuttered plant to resume nuclear energy generation. Officials say Palisades, and the energy it produces, will be key to meeting goals for lowering carbon emissions.
The company that owns Palisades Energy LLC, Holtec International, will receive up to a $1.52 billion conditional loan from the U.S. Department of Energy. The funding will allow the 800-megawatt-capacity plant to resume energy production, company officials and U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm said Wednesday morning.
Palisades is a unique PWR that uses cruciform control rods and consequently a unique fuel design to accommodate the control rods which are function between fuel assemblies rather than in particular fuel assemblies.