I have not seen him this worked up before. Edit to add I do believe this could be said about most countries that have opened the flood gates of immigration.

It seems like since Elon and Trump have become friends the great arm of the federal government in the form of the Federal Aviation Administration has started screwing with Space-X's launch plans.. No doubt China loves this stuff !

There used to be a magazine (maybe 20 years ago" called "US Aviator" that wrote about and exposed many of the corrupt vengeful acts by certain regional departments of the FAA. There were many stories about inept idiots at work. One I still remember was a twin engine aircraft that had the new "Q" tipped props.. A fed during a ramp check grounded the aircraft and accused the pilot of almost landing gear up and managing to make a go-around; thus the prop tips were perfectly bent over (no scratches or runway rash visible..yet that must be the cause!!"

So the aircraft was grounded for several days even though they had been given the paperwork about the new propellers installation which was legal and certified.. Federal bureaucratic B.S.

This was posted at ATS by TheSingleBillie https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1351888/pg1 and I think many of his points are spot on..

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The elite class of Hollywood, influential liberals and leftists in the nation and the world can not tolerate Trump because he refuses to be controlled by them.

Elite Democrats are keen to get rid of Trump any way they can because Trump believes that most Americans are smart enough to make their own decisions about their lives. While Democrats feel they must force "new moralities" on the US population and ways of life many Americans do not want.

Trump is also not beholden to the elite of the elite class, now mainly Democrats that have caused the following to happen to the US people, against the will of many.

giving more support and aide to illegal immigrants than they give to needy US citizens;

encouraged large numbers of illegal immigrants to enter unchecked into the nation, so many that the number of unchecked illegal immigrants in the US now exceeds that of the entire population of Wyoming, or of the individual population of 36 other states;

caused inflation to spiral out of control:

forced citizens to accept transgenders with penis’ participating in women's sports and exposing themselves in high school and gym locker rooms;

have ended energy independence in the US made the country dependent on countries for energy that shout “death to America”;

Democrat politicians have been marching in protests chanting phrases that mean “genocide the Jewish people” while calling 74+ million Republican voters Nazi's and fascists;

for a year liberals have been telling the US population that people should vote solely for Democrats to save Democracy. Then they inform ordinary average voters, their primary votes don't count and the elite of the elite Democrats anoint Kamala the Presidential Candidate.

they are trying hard to do what 9 Dem run states already are doing, allow a healthy uterus owner with a healthy full term 9 month fetus to be extinguished it at will, with no reason given;

insisting nearly daily that Trump AND at a minimum half of the 74+ million US citizens, who voted for Trump are racists, sexists, homophobes, domestic terrorists, insurrectionists, and a threat to the nation and to Democracy, purposely fomenting hatred and division among the US population;

Harris and other Dems have openly affirmed they want to take away gas stoves, furnaces, lawn tools, cars from the American people by forbidding their production and thus replacement if they should break;

The elite of the elite Democrats want Trump gone because he does not believe any of these things above are what the American people want or are good for the nation. The elite Democrats also want as Hillary has said more than once over the past 4 years, Trumps supporters (voters) put into formal deprogramming (like the Chinese are doing to the Ughyers?)

Biden is clearly in the mid stages of dementia, it is obvious to me that an unelected elite group was telling Biden what to do and how to run the nation. It is clear Kamala can only speak in "word salad" off the cuff, unrehearsed or without a teleprompter. Therefore, I think that the same cabal will be running the nation if she becomes "President". This unelected elite of the elitists in the world wants to stay in power running the US, and will do whatever it takes to stay in power, including lawfare or far worse, imposing their "new morality" on the US and forcing the population to accept things that they find offensive or detrimental to the nation.

Unfortunately, I firmly believe Kamala and the Democrats will win, no matter what because the unelected and very powerful elitist cabal will not lose power and will do whatever it takes, and I mean whatever, to win.

The justice hammer falls...



57 pages of criminal allegations against the New York City mayor Eric Adams. Eric Adams is surrounding himself with clergy members and saying he will not resign. He's smiling and acting like this is a political witch-hunt, sound familiar? Perhaps he went off the narrative reservation by speaking out against the out of control illegal immigration.

Starting in 2016, Adams secretly begins accepting free luxury travel from the Turks.


Count 1: Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud, Federal Program Bribery, and to Receive Campaign Contributions By Foreign Nationals

Count 2: Wire Fraud

Count 3: Solicitation of a Contribution by a Foreign National

Count 4: Solicitation of a Contribution by a Foreign National

Count 5: Bribery

Count allegations are detailed on pages 49-55.

Turkey official have been extensively referenced in campaign donations & luxury travel expenses for Adams.


Page 27: Unlawful Matching Funds
* All told, the 2021 Campaign reaped over $10 million in Matching Funds based on the false certifications that the campaign complied with the law, when in fact ERIC ADAMS, the defendant, knowingly and repeatedly relied on illegal contributions.

Page 27: Bribe Allegation
* In 2021, ERIC ADAMS, the defendant, intervened with the FDNY to permit the Turkish Consulate to occupy a skyscraper that had not passed a fire safety inspection, in exchange for, among other things, luxury travel benefits provided by the Turkish Official and the Airline Manager.

I dunno, sounds all normal for democrats.

USA vs Eric Adams

From the indictment:

Eric Adams claims he changed his cell phone password to prevent his staff from deleting any messages or information. Unfortunately, he told investigators, he immediately forgot the new password and so wouldn’t be able to assist them in opening his phone...





LOL, I'm sure this happens a lot with other politicians...




Eric Adams Armenian Genocide denial bribery:



That wouldn’t be the first concerted effort at Armenian genocide denial in New York City... quite a spectacle that Turkey hired a multiracial pogo stick flash mob and sky writers to deny the Armenian genocide in NYC back in 2016.


Daily Mail


The DOJ alleges that Eric Adams placed a Turkish Airlines official (Cenk Öcal) on his transition team in exchange for free upgrades on Turkish Airlines:



Eric Adams and Cenk Öcal (the Turkish Airlines executive) at a Turkish Airlines party.


Photo source (Resident Luxury Lifestyle magazine, July 2019)

"Mr. Öcal, according to a Turkish news report, was fired from the airline in early 2022 during a shake-up at the company." NY Times (Nov 16, 2023)

While the straw donor scheme outlined in the indictment is meatier, Adams seemed easily bribed by luxury flights and accommodations provided by Turkish Airlines.





Adams seems to have been wheeling and dealing with the Turks from what is likely Osteria La Baia, the fancy restaurant run by a pair of convicted money launderers. He goes to La Baia practically every other day; the self-proclaimed vegan almost always gets the Branzino.


The twin brothers Robert and Zhan Petrosyants, convicted felons, whom employees referred to as the restaurant's owners, are close friends of the Mayor. Source: Eric Adams After Dark: A Private Table and Tarnished Friends (NYT, Aug 22, 2022)

From a previous Eric Adams straw donor scandal involving his old NYPD buddies and, in a minor role, the girlfriend of a disgraced pollster, Sean McElwee who popularized “Abolish ICE” before taking a job with Sam Bankman-Fried.
The Washington gambler (WaPo, April 26, 2023)


"The feds have been scrutinizing donations from people connected to the Turkish government, but sources tell CBS News New York agents served subpoenas for information on five more foreign governments over the summer."


The DOJ has gone after democrat senator Bob Menendez (due to be sentenced October 29), democrat rep for Texas Henry Cuellar (indicted, case is ongoing), and Sue Mi Terry (Korean-American, a former CIA analyst, indicted as an unregistered foreign agent of the South Korean government); all indicted on FARA (Foreign Agents Registration Act) charges over the last two years.

I'm actually surprised we aren't seeing Dems accusing the DOJ of unfairly targeting them because most of the FARA cases appear to be Dem or Dem-leaning figures. Hunter Biden almost got hit on FARA as well.

Also, much of this is probably charges a politician could have gotten away with 10-15 years ago, as shown with Mendendez escaping punishment on similar charges in 2018, but New Cold War paranoia is very high and likely contributing to a push toward aggressive pursuit of FARA cases. Expect more fallout in the coming months.

Interesting piece on Havana Syndrome that might make you go, Hmmm...

Quote:This newsletter has published several deep-dive pieces about the so-called Havana Syndrome, what the U.S. Intelligence Community prefers to euphemistically term Anomalous Health Incidents. Just a few days ago, Top Secret Umbra’s latest analysis of AHIs established, based upon considerable evidence, that the Biden-Harris administration, through its intelligence bosses, since 2021 has engaged in an active cover-up to conceal from Congress and the American public that it knows the unpleasant reality lurking behind the Havana Syndrome. The difficult fact is that AHI is caused by a special weapon from Moscow. To refresh:

The terrible truth is that, for many years, multiple hostile intelligence services have employed a Russian-designed and built acoustic directed energy weapon against Americans to harm and cripple them. The culprits are Russia’s Federal Security Service or FSB (for attacks inside or near Russia), the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff or GRU (for attacks further afield) and Cuba’s Dirección de Inteligencia or DI, a close Kremlin spy partner since the 1960s (many of the attacks in the Western Hemisphere, including inside the U.S., are the DI’s handiwork).

Our Intelligence Community is well aware of what the mystery weapon is and how it works. American spies have possessed fragmentary information about this clandestine Russian spy program for decades. Now, based on extensive intelligence collection and analysis, the IC has identified a half-dozen variants of this unique weapon, which was initially developed by the KGB during the late Cold War. The variants represent improvements in terms of capability, portability, and range. The top-shelf model is customarily deployed in a van and has an effective range of several hundred meters. The smallest weapon is man-portable in a backpack and is employed against close targets at a hundred meters or less. All variants produce similar symptoms and long-term medical harm.

The Biden-Harris administration, in the greatest scandal in the history of American intelligence, has assiduously hindered discussion of this secret Kremlin weapon and who’s using it to cripple and even kill Americans, including attacks inside the United States. Since 2021, the Intelligence Community has told lies, prevented the truth from reaching Congress and the public, and executed a bureaucratic conspiracy to stifle discussion of Havana Syndrome. Of course, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his “special services” know exactly what they’ve done. And they know that we know.

They simply don’t care. What if the deep, dark secret here is that there is really no secret? What if the KGB placed the unpleasant truth about AHIs in public view decades ago, but nobody in the West even noticed? What if the only people in the dark about Havana Syndrome are Congress and the American public?

Recently, a friend of mine who came out of that old system shared with me an obscure book he picked up in the former Soviet Union back in the late 1990s. His is the sincere loathing of Communism and its ugly, mass-murdering secret police culture that only someone who grew up around it possesses. Putin says that he is a proud Chekist, to use the proper term: my friend doesn’t share that view.

To understand the relevant context, we must go back to the mid-1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the KGB, when many Chekists were cut adrift, without ideological moorings or a steady paycheck. Some got in bed with organized crime and related less-than-legitimate enterprises. Some tried to curry favor with Russia’s new elites. More than a few sold Soviet secrets to Western intelligence agencies. Others got by as best they could. Some wrote books to cash in on the KGB secrets they had in their heads.

For a few years in the 1990s, there was a strange free-for-all where former Chekists [1] published tell-all (or at least tell-some) books about their Cold War activities. Some of the authors embellished their spy stories, just as Western authors in that genre are wont to do. Nevertheless, this represented a bonanza for Western counterspies. Here were accounts which, even if fictionalized in places, offered the highly classified secrets of Soviet intelligence. If you knew Russian and could decipher the Chekist tea leaves, you could learn a lot. I cracked open more than one Cold War mole mystery by carefully reading such KGB reminiscences – which, when paired with cold case counterintelligence information, unmasked deep Kremlin secrets.

That said, the era of revealing Chekist memoirs proved short-lived. Once Vladimir Putin, the former KGB major, took over the Kremlin in 1999, state archives were shut, and authors were discouraged from revealing state secrets. Those who didn’t get the message were shut down, run into exile, and in some cases died under mysterious circumstances.

The long-term value of those 1990s KGB remembrances can be fairly termed a mixed bag. It’s difficult to assess when an author is being entirely truthful – that’s never a Chekist specialty – and it will be impossible to verify certain accounts, particularly regarding KGB spy operations, until Putinism falls someday, and a future Russian government decides to open the archives to researchers. I’m not holding my breath and neither should you.

Moreover, some of those 1990s Chekist memoirs are rather strange. The book my friend alerted me to fits firmly in the “Weird KGB Stuff” category. It was published by a minor firm in Minsk in 1997 under the title Your Own Intelligence: A Practical Guide (Своя разведка: Практическое пособие). The author is listed as Roman Ronin, but that’s an alias. Under his nom de plume, “Ronin” published a few “spy story” books about supposed KGB espionage operations. The author’s identity remains unknown, but he clearly possessed deep knowledge of KGB modes of thought and action. [2]



The book reads like it’s ripped from KGB classified internal training curriculum, bolstered by personal notes about Chekist modus operandi. Its overall tone is that of an experienced insider in the Soviet spy business. Essentially, in the aftermath of the collapse of the KGB, the author provides the reader with a concise and detailed guide for How to become your own Chekist.

This was perhaps helpful advice in the Wild, Wild East that was the former Soviet Union in the 1990s, when gangsters and oligarchs proliferated as normal folks struggled to just survive. Belarus remained so mired in Soviet-era models, unlike Russia where the KGB broke up into several successor agencies, that Minsk never even changed the name of its secret police, which to this day remains the KGB (it would have cost a fortune to change the letterhead).

Your Own Intelligence constitutes a mystifying read for Westerners. The author is an unapologetic Chekist and makes jaw-dropping statements, encouraging the reader to do whatever is necessary to get the job done. The author didn’t get his manuscript approved by Amnesty International and there’s encouragement for torture that makes waterboarding look like a picnic: “If there is a lot of time to spare, it is more humane and effective to use gradually increasing pressure on the psyche accompanied by physical pain, but when there is almost no time, it is easier to use primitive physical violence.”

Overall, the book offers a guide to the full range of intelligence operations, from the collection of HUMINT (there’s a lot on how to recruit and validate assets) and SIGINT (which wiretaps work best, plus how to protect your own communications security), to intelligence analysis, even how to apply disinformation. There’s considerable discussion about how to mess with the heads of your target with physical and psychological manipulation, and here’s where things get interesting. The author elaborates the uses of a full array of unpleasant spy tricks, including hypnosis, the use of compromising materials (i.e. kompromat) including sex and drugs to influence the mind, plus there’s frank discussion of torture, even something termed “zombification” (essentially a Chekist take on coerced mental programming).

Of greatest interest to AHI is the book’s section on “technotronic methods” for influencing the target, including an alarmingly frank explanation of how to effectively use electric shock to make your subject confess, without killing him, as well as how to apply ultrasound to “bake” the target’s brain, as here:

In this case, both thermal and mechanical effects of elastic vibrations with frequencies over 100 kHz are used. Even the low intensity of such concentrated vibrations significantly affects the thought structures and nervous system, causing headaches, dizziness, visual and respiratory disorders, convulsions, and sometimes loss of consciousness. Devices for such effects are easy to make yourself. "Baking" selected areas of the brain with well-focused ultrasound is sometimes used to permanently remove unwanted memories from memory, but this is only possible with well-trained personnel and special equipment used in medicine.

“Ronin” continues with an explanation of the espionage uses of infrasound, that is, a type of sound wave with a frequency that falls below the normal range of human hearing, typically less than 20 Hz:

The use of mechanical resonance of elastic vibrations with frequencies below 16 Hz, usually imperceptible to the ear, is quite effective in terms of its effect on a person is the use of mechanical resonance of elastic vibrations with frequencies below 16 Hz. The most dangerous interval here is considered to be from 6 to 9 Hz. Significant psychotronic effects are most pronounced at a frequency of 7 Hz, consonant with the alpha rhythm of natural brain vibrations, and any mental work in this case becomes impossible, since it seems that the head is about to explode into small pieces. Low-intensity sound causes nausea and ringing in the ears, as well as deterioration of vision and unaccountable fear. Medium-intensity sound upsets the digestive organs and the brain, causing paralysis, general weakness, and sometimes blindness. Elastic powerful infrasound can damage, and even completely stop the heart. Usually, unpleasant sensations begin with 120 dB of tension, traumatic ones - with 130 dB. Infra-frequencies of about 12 Hz with a strength of 85-110 dB induce attacks of seasickness and dizziness, and oscillations with a frequency of 15-18 Hz with the same intensity instill feelings of anxiety, uncertainty and, finally, panic and fear.

Last, the book illuminates the reader concerning what he terms “Ultra-high frequency (UHF) non-ionizing radiation”:

This electromagnetic microwave radiation affects bio-currents with a frequency of 1 to 35 Hz. As a result, there are disturbances in the perception of reality, an increase and decrease in tone, fatigue, nausea and headache; complete sterilization of the instinctive sphere is possible, as well as damage to the heart, brain and central nervous system. Waves actively modulated in the frequencies of the alpha rhythm of the brain are capable of causing irreversible “quirks” in behavior.

UHF radiation introduces information directly into the brain, and in their fields any psycho-processing of the subconscious is noticeably accelerated. Telephone and radio line wiring, sewer and heating pipes, as well as a television, telephone and fire alarm are quite usable as antenna transmitters of such waves. The working equipment, in fact, can really be made in makeshift laboratory conditions. Directed microwave radiation usually manifests itself in twitching of the legs, burning in the soles, earache, eye irritation, clicking in the “buzzing” head, blows to the nasopharynx accompanied by coughing, sneezing and runny nose, possible cardiac arrhythmia and numbness of the hands. Such symptoms usually disappear after the person leaves the radiation zone.

I’m no scientist but what “Ronin” described in 1997 tracks with disturbing precision with depictions of what an AHI attack feels like and the lasting medical harm it causes, according to many Havana Syndrome victims who have come forward with their accounts. How did “Ronin” know all this, in such detail, nearly three decades ago? He was obviously relying on highly classified KGB information here. According to intelligence sources, the KGB studied the impact of these ugly techniques on prisoners, who served as Kremlin guinea pigs before they used their secret weapon for the first time on real-live American spies in 1996 (as this newsletter revealed).


I don’t take any Chekist account at face value. Nevertheless, what “Ronin” tells us provides a telling clue about what the KGB developed during the late Cold War in its arsenal of deniable special weapons. The Biden-Harris Intelligence Community can no longer pretend that it has no idea what’s causing AHIs. The KGB already told us, right in print, back in the 1990s. Surely the IC has more detailed information in its classified holdings about this subject than what was offered in than an obscure Russian language book printed in Minsk in 1997.

Since the current IC leadership is compromised by its long-term cover-up regarding Havana Syndrome, we cannot expect them to come clean now, even when confronted by hard evidence. Again, Congress must act, because nobody else in our nation’s capital is willing to do anything to protect Americans from foreign attack, even right on our own soil. Putin has no incentive to stop his attacks so long as the White House plays along with his Chekist ruse with its silence.

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[1] Contrary to Putin’s dictum that “There are no ‘former’ Chekists” (Бывших чекистов не бывает), I’ve met a few of that breed; they are undeniably outliers, however.

[2] I have a plausible suspect for “Ronin,” but my identification is not 100 percent solid; moreover, this suspect is still alive and has become an opponent of the Putin regime, and I have no wish to place him in additional danger.

And if that was not bad enough 27 shots by the age of 2 !

A very short video from Rumble ...  ask yourself are all those shots necessary ? 

https://rumble.com/v5g5djp-70-jabs-in-re...src_v1_upp

saw these two threads on ats,

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Reaffirming Our Desire For Productive Political Debate (Redux)

Weekend is over and Monday has once again arrived.

I and many others were saying, thinking silently, postulating from 6 months ago that if you live in Beirut, especially southern Lebanon, GET OUT Now! Exhibit A: Gaza.

Israel at War - Day 353: War on Hezbollah: Today’s airstrikes in Lebanon are reportedly the most intense since the 2006 war.

Since this morning, the Israeli Air Force has struck more than 300 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, the IDF says. Alongside the update, the army publishes an image of Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi approving the wave of airstrikes from the military's underground command room at the IDF HQ in Tel Aviv.


The target of the Israeli airstrike in Beirut is senior Hezbollah commander Ali Karaki, sources tell Israeli media. Karaki is the head of Hezbollah's southern command, responsible for the terror group's military activity in south Lebanon. He is a member of the Jihad Council, Hezbollah's top military body.



https://x.com/KyleJGlen/status/1838200561969025258


Israel issues new warning to residents of the villages of the Bekaa region. "If you are inside or near a house containing Hezbollah weapons - you must leave it and move away from it within two hours to a distance of no less than 1,000 meters outside the village, or go to the central school near you and do not return to it until further notice."




Source:
Times Of Israel military correspondent Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian who has been reporting on the Middle East powder keg since October 7th.



https://x.com/manniefabian/status/1838277274832871933




Fireworks show in Lebanon: https://x.com/Mr_Andrew_Fox/status/1838231894565024200

Message from Bibi: "Get out of harms way now!"
https://x.com/netanyahu/status/1838248513609646407



Geoconfirmed War maps



Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group leaves Norfolk



US sending more troops to Middle East

I thought the White House said we do not have any active troops overseas in war/conflict areas during cackling Kamalarkey's last debate. Wink-wink.

This photo being passed around the interwebs...


...which is in fact an official (non-AI) photo of U.S. Marines assisting in the evacuation of American citizens from Beirut, Lebanon...in July 2006.

As always the fog of war is rarely seen clearly and on the Internet sea it changes every nanosecond.

Post whatever articles, vids, pics, chatter you wish on this latest escalation in Lebanon.

Who could have seen this coming?

https://rairfoundation.com/imam-netherla...-you-dont/

Quote:“The Muslim is the boss in the Netherlands. And if you don’t like it, you can leave.” He also claims that the Netherlands used to be the largest Islamic country in the world, referring to its former colony, Indonesia.



In his TikTok tirade, Brother Rahide makes it clear that the Dutch need to adapt to Muslims. While his tone seems somewhat exaggerated, the Islamic influencer continues his rant for several minutes.


Rahide begins: “This is the Netherlands, the country where the Muslim is in charge, not the Dutch. If you don’t like it, you can leave. Go to Germany or somewhere else. Here, we Muslims are in charge. We built this country. We are responsible for everything here—houses, infrastructure, everything. Everything in the Netherlands is thanks to Muslims. The Netherlands was also once the largest Islamic country in the world. So if you don’t like it, take a plane, boat, or ferry to England or New Zealand and leave. Or just accept that we, Muslims, are in charge here.”

Rahide also criticizes PVV leader Geert Wilders: “Geertje is nothing here. He’s just a puppet of America, doing whatever America tells him to. Do you understand? The Netherlands belongs to Islam and always will. Yes, sorry people, the truth hurts.”



[b][b]‘The Dutch are just visiting here’[/b][/b]

According to Brother Rahide, the Netherlands was built entirely by Muslims: “Dutch people will discover this when they look up history. Your phone, your laptop, your iPad, your oven, your microwave, your television, your remote control, your bed, the house you live in, the roads you drive on—everything is thanks to Muslims. The truth may be hard to hear, but we have to face it.”

Gilbert Associates concept art for Three Mile Island plant:


Gilbert Associates was the Architect Engineer on Unit 1, announced for restart this morning...

Quote:Shares of Constellation Energy jumped as much as 16% to a record high on Friday.

Microsoft has agreed to purchase the energy for two decades and declined to disclose financial terms. This is the first time Microsoft has secured a dedicated, 100% nuclear facility for its use.

The decision is the latest sign of surging interest in the nuclear industry as power demand for AI soars. More than a dozen reactors went dark over roughly the past decade in the face of increasing competition from cheaper natural gas and renewable energy. But growing demand for electricity — from factories, cars and especially from data centers — has spurred interest in nuclear plants that can provide carbon-free power around the clock.

“Policymakers and the market have received a huge wake-up call,” Constellation Chief Executive Officer Joe Dominguez said in an interview. “There’s no version of the future of this country that doesn’t rely on these nuclear assets.”

Constellation — which has seen its shares jump this year thanks to mounting investor awareness of the value of power plants — plans to fund the project from its own coffers rather than seek state or federal support. That’s in contrast to Holtec International, which is pursuing the only other disclosed effort to restart a closed reactor, with about $1.8 billion in conditional funding from the US Energy Department and the state of Michigan. NextEra Energy Inc. has also said it’s considering reviving a closed Iowa reactor, in part to supply data-center customers. However, beyond these three, experts say there are few other mothballed reactors that may be suitable for restarting.

While Constellation isn’t averse to outside financial support, Dominguez said government approvals move slowly and he doesn’t want to wait. Work at Three Mile Island is expected to start immediately. The deal to supply Microsoft with electricity from the 837-megawatt reactor is Constellation’s biggest-ever power purchase deal.

The restart effort has been in the works since early 2023, when Constellation began evaluating whether it made sense to switch the reactor back on. By early this year, the company had concluded that it wanted to pursue the project, and began talking to potential customers. Microsoft was immediately interested, Dominguez said.

The nuclear power purchase will aid Microsoft’s plans to run all of its massive global network of data centers on clean energy by 2025, Bobby Hollis, Microsoft’s vice president for energy, said in an interview. This nuclear energy will be used to fuel data-center expansion in areas like Chicago, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio.

The software giant is overhauling its entire product line around AI and the resulting increase in demand for cloud-computing is imperiling Microsoft’s plans to be carbon negative by 2030, the company said earlier this year. It spent more than $50 billion on capital expenditures in the fiscal year that ended June 30, largely on data-center expansion. It plans to top that figure in the current fiscal year.

While the additional nuclear power will help Microsoft’s climate goals, it does not address the most intractable issue – emissions from concrete, steel and chips used in the data centers, Hollis said.
“This is not a simple piece, but it’s easier than figuring out how to decarbonize the entire supply chain,” he said.

Still, data centers make a useful customer for nuclear power. Wind and solar power outputs can vary, while a nuclear plant generally runs constantly and requires a customer that can take all of that electricity, Hollis said. That makes tech companies selling cloud computing an ideal option.
“We run around the clock. They run around the clock,” he said.

Microsoft isn't the only tech company looking to nuclear power to fuel its AI ambitions. Earlier this year, Amazon.com Inc.'s cloud computing division agreed to spend $650 million to acquire a data center campus connected to Talen Energy Corp.’s 40-year-old nuclear power plant on the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania.

While the Three Mile Island reactor was mothballed in 2019, Dominguez said the equipment is still in good shape. Still, restarting it will require significant investments in the main transformer, turbine and cooling systems. The company will have to restaff the facility and must seek approval from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Constellation will also seek to extend its operating license through 2054, and is planning to rename the facility the Crane Clean Energy Center, after the late Chris Crane, former CEO of Exelon Corp., which spun out its generation unit to become Constellation in 2022.

One of the biggest hurdles will be connecting the plant to the power grid operated by PJM Interconnection LLC, which has a lengthy queue. If PJM can move fast enough, Dominguez said the facility could potentially be ready to supply power as early as 2027.

“I’m so glad we’re reversing a terrible mistake that shouldn’t have happened,” he said. “It will be a lot more difficult to achieve the energy transition if we only want to use wind and solar and storage.”