How the IBEW and the Biden Administration Brought American Nuclear Power Back from the Brink

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The Palisades Nuclear Generating Station in southwestern Michigan was shuttered in 2022 but is coming back online thanks to a $1.5 billion loan guarantee under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The recommissioning is covered by a PLA with the IBEW.

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For the first time in U.S. history, a nuclear power plant is going back online.

July 10, 2024

The recommissioning of Palisades Nuclear Generating Station in Covert Township, Mich., is just one part of an extraordinary turnaround in the nuclear industry engineered by a unique collaboration among the White House, the IBEW and American industry.

Palisades was shuttered in 2022, but a $1.5 billion loan guarantee, funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, will allow it to come back in 24 months for less than one-tenth the cost of a new nuclear plant.

And the whole project — including the small modular reactors proposed for the same site — is covered by a project labor agreement with the IBEW.

"Recommissioning Palisades is going to bring back middle-class, union jobs that we thought were permanently gone from this part of the state," said Sixth District International Vice President Mike Clemmons. "This was all made possible because we have the most important seat at the most important table in America today. When the nation's industrial and environmental policy was signed into law by President Joe Biden, it was 100% pro-labor."

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