Google to bring shuttered nuclear power plant back from the dead

Google announced this week it is working with NextEra Energy to revive a nuclear power plant in Iowa that had closed in 2020.NextEra has been looking for a partner to reopen the reactor for the past year, and it found one in Google, which has been steadily adding zero-carbon energy sources to power its growing data center fleet. Neither company disclosed financial terms of the deal.The Duane Arnold Energy Center was shuttered after a summer derecho (major rain storm) damaged a part of the secondary contain ...