Cook Plant Unit 2 begins refueling outage

Unit 2 of the Cook nuclear power plant is now offline for a refueling outage. Indiana Michigan Power told us more:

At 2:31 a.m. Saturday, September 20, Operators at Indiana Michigan Power’s Cook Nuclear Plant safely removed the Unit 2 reactor from service to begin its twenty-eighth refueling outage. Power reduction on Unit 2 began at 8:18 p.m. on Wednesday, September 17, to allow for equipment testing prior to the Unit’s removal from service. The unit will have operated for 11,943 hours during its last cycle at a capacity factor of 98.9 percent, generating 14,026,676 megawatt-hours of (net) electricity.

Cook Unit 1 remains at 100 percent power. Power to customers will not be disrupted by the planned Unit 2 outage. AEP does not provide a return to service date for competitive reasons.

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