COVERT, MI — A nuclear energy plant along Lake Michigan is getting $400 million from the U.S. Department of Energy, allowing it to nearly double the amount of energy it can generate.

Two small modular reactors (SMRs) will be deployed at the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station in Van Buren County.

The plant is slated to celebrate a historic restart before the end of the year.

“Southwest Michigan will be on the cutting edge of the next generation of nuclear energy in America,” U.S. Rep Bill Huizenga said.

Two more SMRs will be deployed in a Tennessee plant, per a DOE press release.

When it restarts, the plant promises to generate 800 megawatts of power without emitting greenhouses gasses produced by burning coal or natural gas.

The new reactors at Palisades will generate another 600

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