In Historic Reversal, US to Restart a Shut Down Nuclear Power Plant for the First Time Ever
In a move which may force the lunatic greens to storm the White House, on Wednesday the federal government announced that it would provide a $1.5 billion loan to restart a nuclear power plant in southwestern Michigan.
NJ-based Holtec International acquired the 800-megawatt Palisades plant in 2022 with plans to dismantle it, but with support from the state of Michigan and the Biden administration, the emphasis has shifted to restarting the nuclear power plant by late 2025 instead.
What is remarkable is not that the US is throwing some money at a nuclear power plant – since the US sells $1 trillion in debt every 100 days, it may as well go full “Brewster’s Millions” (or rather “Trillions”) and spend it all asap; it is that this would be the first nuclear power plant to be reopened in the US, setting a precedent as atomic energy makes a triumphal comeback. Sure, it still faces hurdles, including inspections, testing and the blessing of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, but those are just formalities: watch as new NPPs start springing up across the country next.
“Nuclear power is our single largest source of carbon-free electricity, directly supporting 100,000 jobs across the country and hundreds of thousands more indirectly,” said Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, a former Michigan governor, who in turn is repeating what nuclear advocates have been saying for decades. Restarting this particular plant will protect 600 union jobs and 1,100 throughout the community.
The Palisades plant is along Lake Michigan, a two-hour drive from Chicago. A Michigan utility, CMS Energy, owned it from 1971 until the plant was sold to Louisiana-based utility Entergy in 2007. It was shut down in 2022.
Holtec said it has long-term commitments so far from two electric cooperatives to buy power from the plant.
“The repowering of Palisades will restore safe, around-the-clock generation to hundreds of thousands of households, businesses and manufacturers,” said Kris Singh, Holtec president and chief executive.
Critics, of course, have emerged. A coalition of “greens” opposed to restarting what it derisively calls a “zombie reactor” has requested a hearing at the NRC.
Holtec spokesman Patrick O’Brien said it will take four to five months to finalize the financial deal with the government.
“It is a loan we have to pay back,” he said, explaining that unlike US taxpayer funds embezzled by Ukraine’s corrupt leaders and the US Military-Industrial Complex, this particular loan will be tracked and eventually repaid.
Nuclear energy is in the spotlight. Thirty-four countries, including the U.S., last week pledged to use it to reduce reliance on fossil fuels. In California, regulators in December said the Diablo Canyon plant could operate through 2030 instead of 2025 to guard against blackouts as the state shifts toward renewable power sources. Owner Pacific Gas & Electric said federal aid helped it repay a state loan.
“There is more enthusiasm toward nuclear power — in Congress, in the industry and also internationally,” said Najmedin Meshkati, an engineering professor at the University of Southern California who has inspected nuclear plants around the world.
There is another reason why nuclear energy is suddenly back in vogue: with projections for electricity demand over the next five years doubling from just a year ago – due to a building frenzy of AI data centers, federally subsidized manufacturing plants, and the government-driven electric-vehicle transition – the US has no choice but to go full-on nuclear, despite the howls of outrage from green activists and progressive voters.
Still, restarting a plant is not easy.
“It puts the onus and burden on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Holtec to double down on efforts to make sure this plant is safe enough and all the safety measures are intact,” Meshkati said of Palisades.
Meanwhile, keep an eye on uranium stocks and more importantly, on the price of uranium itself: as the nuclear renaissance begins in earnest, the world will need lots of uranium, and the supply chains will need years to catch up to demand, which means that what has already been one of the best performing commodities in recent years is set to rise that much higher.
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France Wants Foreign Troops to Reinforce Olympics Security – Report
France has called on its international allies to help enhance security for the upcoming Olympic Games, in Paris, AFP reported on Thursday, citing sources in the government.
According to the report, Paris has asked 46 nations to send 2,185 police reinforcements for the duration of the games in order to take over tasks that require additional specialists.
The French authorities have not yet confirmed that such a request was made, but Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz on Thursday announced on X (formerly Twitter) that his country’s armed forces would “join the international coalition established by France” to provide additional security at the Olympics. He didn’t reveal the size of the contingent Warsaw plans to send, but noted that it would deploy canine units whose job will be to “detect explosives and counteract terrorist activities.”
An Interior Ministry source told AFP that the request for reinforcements is a “classic move for host countries ahead of the organization of major events.” However, the news comes just days after Paris raised the terrorism threat level in the country to its highest level following the deadly attack in Moscow, which killed more than 140 people.
On March 22, four gunmen stormed the Crocus City Hall concert venue just outside Moscow, going on a shooting spree and setting the building on fire. The gunmen had allegedly been recruited on behalf of ISIS-K, an Afghanistan-based offshoot of the terrorist organization Islamic State.
Russian investigators later revealed that the perpetrators had received funding for the attack from Ukraine.
In a press statement following the attack in Russia, French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said that the threat of terrorism in France is “real and strong,” adding that the country’s intelligence services have foiled 45 terror plots since 2017. He noted that France’s current anti-terror security measures, part of the country’s national security alert system called the Vigipirate Plan, will be tightened in the coming weeks, with security forces maintaining a more visible presence on streets and in front of possible targets such as government buildings, transportation infrastructure, and schools.
The Vigipirate Plan has been in place since 2015, when France faced a series of devastating terror acts linked to Islamic State. They included the attack at the Bataclan concert hall, the Stade de France stadium, and drive-by shootings and suicide bombings across Paris.
This year’s Olympics will run from July 26 to August 11. Around 45,000 French police and gendarmes, 18,000 troops and up to 22,000 private security guards are expected to work at the games, AFP reported, citing official figures.
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P. DIDDY: Jeffrey Epstein of the Rap Industry
After the Department of Homeland Security’s Investigations Task Force raided his home, rap artist, Sean Combs, A.K.A. P. Diddy, has been in the news quite a bit. And the more you look into this story, the bigger it gets.
According to a recent lawsuit, Combs and several members of his staff have been accused of sexual assault, human trafficking, and operating a blackmail operation with hidden cameras that captured politicians, athletes, and members of the music industry, in homosexual acts and other compromising positions.
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On his Thursday show Alex Jones covered statements by talkshow host Joe Rogan on a recent Joe Rogan Experience episode regarding the mechanized genocide being committed by Israel in Gaza.
“They were always saying they were only targeting Hamas, and everybody else is a casualty, well if those guys are just unarmed civilians, and they’re walking alone, that’s what they appear to be, and you just blast them from the sky with robots,” Rogan said. “This is insane.”
Rogan was referencing recent video of Israel using drones to murder Palestinians in the streets.
“If you can’t talk about that, if you can’t say that’s real, then you’re saying that genocide is okay as long as we’re doing it, and you’re saying that from a perspective of someone that literally went through the Holocaust,” He said. “And now you’re willing to do it, I hope the irony is not lost on you.”
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On his Thursday show, Alex Jones covered how Child Protective Services failed to protect children when the government agency gave children to pedophile rings.
“And it’s where gay men, in closed quotes, and I’m not attacking gay men that aren’t pedophiles, but I’m saying gay men is what they call it in the news, are adopting children, and most of them are social worker kids, kids grabbed by social workers, because mom was working two jobs and the four year old was in the back yard and the neighbor called and they took them,” Jones said. “And they give them to these pedophile men who then sell them to rape gangs.”
The Infowars host said that these stories break all the time, but only in the local news. He went on to discuss the greater pedophile cult ruling the nation.
“When you look at Congress you see Democrats, I mean most of them are pedophiles, those are child rapists, and I don’t just say that, I mean you don’t get in the club, it’s like to be a made member of MS-13 you got to have killed somebody,” He said. “Well here you got to rape a little kid in front of them.”
Pedophilia is often used as a compromising tactic by intelligence agencies, as was seen in the Jefferey Epstein saga.
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