Cook Plant Unit 1 completes refueling outage

Cook Plant Unit 1 completes refueling outage

Unit 1 of the Cook nuclear power plant is now back online having completed its latest refueling outage. The Cook plant says the outage started March 22, and Unit 1 was reconnected to the transmission grid Wednesday afternoon. Cook plant spokesperson Joe Callahan told us last month there were a few major projects on the agenda for this latest outage. For example… “The replacement of the motor on our reactor cooling pumps,” Callahan said. “So the …

COOK NUCLEAR PLANT UNIT 1 COMPLETES SPRING 2025 REFUELING OUTAGE

Indiana Michigan Power’s (I&M) Cook Nuclear Plant Unit 1 completed its spring 2025 refueling outage which began March 22, connecting to the transmission grid at 3:00 p.m., Wednesday.  Cook’s Unit 2 remained safely at full power for the duration of the 39-day Unit 1 refueling outage. Cook spokesperson Bill Downey summarized the major work completed: In addition to refueling the reactor and performing regular maintenance work, the outage also inc…