The green energy advocates are always yapping about the need for carbon-free power, but they always want unreliable and intermittent, not to mention ugly and low energy-density sources, like wind and solar. But now, in Michigan, a facility is in the process of restarting that will actually give consumers what they want and what the greens want: reliable, high energy-density, carbon-free (well, mostly) electricity. 

How? The Palisades Nuclear Plant is in the process of resuming operations.

"In advancing President Trump’s commitment to meet our growing demand for affordable, reliable and secure electricity, America needs to utilize all forms of energy that grow our economy, create new jobs, and secure energy independence," said U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright in the announcement. "With projects like the Palisades Nuclear Plant, the Energy Department is working to ensure America's nuclear renaissance is just around the corner." The DOE declined to elaborate further.

Holtec International, the company that will be operating the plant, released this statement:

This marks another major step forward in our effort to return Palisades to service later this year—bringing 800 megawatts of safe, reliable baseload power back to the grid and supporting hundreds of high-paying, highly skilled American jobs. It further underscores the critical…

— Holtec International (@holtecintl) April 23, 2025

The X post reads:

This marks another major step forward in our effort to return Palisades to service later this year—bringing 800 megawatts of safe, reliable baseload power back to the grid and supporting hundreds of high-paying, highly skilled American jobs. It further underscores the critical role nuclear plays in meeting our domestic energy needs, strengthening U.S. energy security, and reaffirming America’s position as the global energy leader.

This is, as someone once said, a big freakin' deal.

As I'm fond of pointing out, we solve today's problems with tomorrow's technology, and nuclear power generation is making some big strides towards being tomorrow's tech, with innovations like small modular reactors and molten-salt reactors. But the Palisades plant is still today's technology, which doesn't mean it's not worth restarting.

Nuclear power is vital to our energy policy, to our economy. It represents a significant increase in energy density even with current reactor technology. It's clean and reliable. The waste produced is nasty, yes, but it's also relatively small by volume and can be safely stored, and modern reactors and reprocessing technology are helping to reduce even that.

There's no good reason not to bring Palisades back online. There are no good reasons not to expand our nation's nuclear energy program. Energy is at the heart of our economy. Everything we do, every economic decision we make, every product that is moved from point of creation to point of sale, relies on energy. We need more, not less energy; our lifestyle depends on it. And nuclear power can provide that.

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The Department of Energy has approved three loans to help with the startup. I'd rather not see taxpayers' dollars being spent on, well, anything other than the military and the state department, but the nation's nuclear power program has been neglected, and this sort of a hand-up will likely be required to bring more nuclear power online.

Nuclear power is an essential part of our energy program. It's good that the Trump administration understands the importance of this.

The Democrat Party has never been less popular as voters reject its globalist agenda.

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