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The cost of America’s nuclear revival

Donald Trump has promised to build fleets of new reactors to help ‘win’ the AI race. But many think the goals are unrealistic

On an industrial site on the shores of Lake Michigan, hundreds of workers are racing to do something that has never been achieved before: restart a US nuclear power plant scheduled to be decommissioned.

Seven years ago, Entergy, a utility company and former owner of the Palisades plant, told staff it was no longer economically viable and would need to close.

The fracking revolution, which produced seemingly limitless cheap natural gas, and two decades of stagnant power demand had dimmed investors’ appetite for a technology that generates about a fifth of US electricity, Entergy said.

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