AEP plans to restart Cook nuclear plant:
American Electric Power Co.`s board of directors approved a comprehensive plan to restart the idle Cook nuclear plant, Bridgman, Mich. Unit 2 is scheduled to return to service in April 2000 and Unit 1 is to return to service in September 2000. Plant officials shut down both units in September 1997 because of questions raised during a Nuclear Regulatory Commission design inspection. Expenditures for the restart are estimated at $574 million, of which $192 million has already been spent.
