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LCG, October 20, 2025--Holtec International announced today that the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant site in Michigan has received new nuclear fuel – 68 assemblies in total – that achieves a major milestone on the path to restarting the plant. The 800-MW facility was shutdown and decommissioned in 2022 due primarily for economic reasons; however, Holtec is progressing towards restarting the original unit by the end of this year, pending all necessary federal regulatory reviews and approvals. Achieving a successful restart of a shutdown nuclear unit will be a historic first for the nuclear industry.
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Holtec Receives New Nuclear Fuel at Palisades for Planned Restart
LCG, October 20, 2025--Holtec International announced today that the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant site in Michigan has received new nuclear fuel – 68 assemblies in total – that achieves a major milestone on the path to restarting the plant. The 800-MW facility was shutdown and decommissioned in 2022 due primarily for economic reasons; however, Holtec is progressing towards restarting the original unit by the end of this year, pending all necessary federal regulatory reviews and approvals. Achieving a successful restart of a shutdown nuclear unit will be a historic first for the nuclear industry.
Holtec stated procuring new fuel was among the earliest long-lead activities in the project, requiring months of technical preparation and regulatory coordination. Palisades’ historic transition from decommissioning to operations status occurred with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC's) authorization in late August 2025 enabled the plant to receive new fuel at the site.
The fuel was fabricated domestically by a nuclear fuel manufacturer that has supplied Palisades and others in the nuclear industry for decades. Upon arrival and in-depth quality inspection, the accepted batch of fuel was placed in secure storage within the Spent Fuel Pool Building where it will remain until its loading in the Reactor core.
Holtec's announcement also summarized the major equipment restoration work that is advancing across the facility. For example, reassembly of the Main Turbine Generator is underway following more than a year of inspection, testing, and maintenance work. The Plant has also recently received and installed the second (and last) fully refurbished Primary Coolant Pump (PCP) motor, which is essential to recirculate the reactor coolant.
Other significant restorative work includes the chemical cleaning of the secondary side of the Steam Generators. The chemical cleaning follows successful completion of refurbishing of the Steam Generators’ tubes earlier this summer and is intended to ensure long-term reliability and efficiency of the plant.
Holtec’s CEO stated, "The esprit de corps of our tirelessly toiling worker force, over 1,800 strong boosted by the stout support of federal, state, and local government as well as our industry partners, labor, and the Southwest Michigan community, is a testament to the national consensus and our collective will to harness nuclear energy to meet the galloping demand for power in our country."
In addition to the historic restart of the original unit at the Palisades site, Holtec plans to construct and commission two of Holtec’s 300-MW, first-of-its-kind small modular reactors (SMRs) at the site by the beginning of the next decade.
Adding first-of-its-kind SMRs will be an interesting evolution for the Palisades Nuclear Facility site, located on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan. The plant began generating carbon-free electricity on December 31, 1971, and the plant operating license was set to expire in 2031. Market conditions for the plant were not favorable, and Entergy, the then-owner, shut down the plant in May 2022 after the power purchase agreement (PPA) for the plant with Consumers Energy expired. In June 2022, Entergy sold the plant to Holtec Decommissioning International. Plans had called for the plant to be transferred to Holtec for decommissioning under terms of an agreement approved by the NRC in December 2021. However, Holtec applied for a federal grant under the Civil Nuclear Credit (CNC) program in July 2022 to restart the plant. Thus the plans for the nuclear site have jumped from no generation in 2031, to no generation in 2022, to 800 Mw in 2026, and 1,400 MW in about 2031.
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