The Cook nuclear power plant near Bridgman is about to move some large equipment. Spokesperson Bill Schalk tells WSJM News they’ll be transporting three 175-ton and three 75-ton retired turbine casings from the plant to a barge on the St. Joseph River. That’s after a replacement project of Unit 2’s turbines last year. The moves will start on Monday night with a turbine casing loaded on to an 18 wheel truck. Schalk says the route includes as many side roads as possible.
“It won’t go very fast,” Schalk said. “It’s only about six miles per hour. What we’re doing is we’ll take six different moves in the last two weeks of August overnight at night. We’ll move them down to the St. Joe River at the LaFarge terminal, and they will be put on a barge after Labor Day.”
From there, the huge pieces of equipment will be taken to Tennessee to be scrapped. The 200-foot long barge will be docked outside the LaFarge Terminal for approximately one week while the casings are loaded.
