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Dept. of Energy to provide loan to restart 3 mile island

Posted on 11/19/25 at 7:28 pm
Posted by TrueTiger
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Posted on 11/19/25 at 7:28 pm
Posted by texag7
College Station
Member since Apr 2014
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Posted on 11/19/25 at 7:30 pm to
This will upset the panicans
Posted by Cosmo
glassman's guest house
Member since Oct 2003
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Posted on 11/19/25 at 7:30 pm to
Loan that will be forgiven

Corporate welfare

I support more nuclear but why is govt paying?
Posted by loogaroo
Welsh
Member since Dec 2005
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Posted on 11/19/25 at 7:32 pm to
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I support more nuclear but why is govt paying?


True.

Seems like investors wouldn't be hard to find.
Posted by texag7
College Station
Member since Apr 2014
40489 posts
Posted on 11/19/25 at 7:33 pm to
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I support more nuclear but why is govt paying?


The DOE has financed energy loans for the past 20 years
Posted by Nosevens
Member since Apr 2019
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Posted on 11/19/25 at 7:33 pm to
Is it really that big of price to see a real nuclear meltdown on the east coast
Posted by Warboo
Enterprise Alabama
Member since Sep 2018
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Posted on 11/19/25 at 7:34 pm to
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Loan that will be forgiven


If that is true I will be against it.

quote:

Corporate welfare I support more nuclear but why is govt paying?


I want transparency on this. We need more nuclear energy but payback for doing so.
Posted by TrueTiger
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Posted on 11/19/25 at 7:40 pm to
I would think that Microsoft could come up with the loan.
Posted by hottub
Member since Dec 2012
3651 posts
Posted on 11/19/25 at 7:43 pm to
The 3 mile island partial meltdown was handled very well. The media obviously didn’t portray it that way. One of the reactors was still operating until 2019.
Posted by TrueTiger
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Posted on 11/19/25 at 7:45 pm to
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The 3 mile island partial meltdown was handled very well


Do you know how many people died?





Zero.
Posted by CAD703X
Liberty Island
Member since Jul 2008
91071 posts
Posted on 11/19/25 at 7:46 pm to
lawd a mercy i knew co-pilot sucked but damn, you need a nuclear reactor to power it now?
Posted by hottub
Member since Dec 2012
3651 posts
Posted on 11/19/25 at 7:47 pm to
Yes and the most exposure the general public had was equivalent to a chest X-ray.
Posted by Clames
Member since Oct 2010
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Posted on 11/19/25 at 7:48 pm to
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Is it really that big of price to see a real nuclear meltdown on the east coast


A bargain compared to Solyndra really, nuclear is far more reliable.
Posted by 3down10
Member since Sep 2014
36441 posts
Posted on 11/19/25 at 7:50 pm to
Good to see nuclear energy coming back.

Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
71255 posts
Posted on 11/19/25 at 7:53 pm to
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Trump DOE gives Microsoft partner $1B loan to restart Three Mile Island reactor

Good. Maybe this will help Microsoft to finally start making some money and then turn a profit. I know they've been struggling.
This post was edited on 11/19/25 at 7:54 pm
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
100176 posts
Posted on 11/19/25 at 8:26 pm to
They’ll be restarting Unit 1 reactor, the one that operated until 2019.

Unit 2 (the one that partially melted down in 1979) will not be used. It’s been fully decommissioned cleaned up and is basically just a shell that is monitored
Posted by billjamin
Houston
Member since Jun 2019
16419 posts
Posted on 11/19/25 at 8:56 pm to
Govt handouts and stacking tax credits. The American energy way.
Posted by billjamin
Houston
Member since Jun 2019
16419 posts
Posted on 11/19/25 at 9:04 pm to
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Loan that will be forgiven

Doubtful. DOE has a solid track record or performance across the loan program office portfolios. Even with noteworthy failures like Solyndra they’ve always over performed on returns and specifically defaults. Fun fact, anyone with a ford ecoboost can thank the doe lpo for it.
Posted by HubbaBubba
North of DFW, TX
Member since Oct 2010
50724 posts
Posted on 11/19/25 at 9:13 pm to
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I would think that Microsoft could come up with the loan.
Yeah, Microsoft has huge government contracts. I was working with them as a technology partner on development of the IVAS Next Generation Warfighter Helmet with Anduril Industries. That contract is huge, potentially $100+ billion. They can afford the loan to their partner.
Posted by Nosevens
Member since Apr 2019
16996 posts
Posted on 11/20/25 at 6:22 am to
The meltdown I’m referring to is the democrats on the east coast having it back again
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