No post-quake damage reported by Michigan's nuclear plants

By The Associated Press

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By Beth Boehne

Story Created: Apr 18, 2008 at 1:09 PM EDT

Story Updated: Apr 18, 2008 at 1:24 PM EDT

BRIDGMAN, Mich. (AP) — Two of Michigan's three nuclear power plants have exercised emergency plans following an early morning earthquake that shook southern Illinois.

The plants have not shut down their reactors because of the 5.2-magnitude quake, and they have reported no problems.

The facilities that took emergency measures are in southwestern Michigan. Both are operating normally again.

Spokesmen for the Cook plant in the Berrien County community of Bridgman and the Palisades plant in Van Buren County's Covert Township say nothing unusual was found during inspections of those plants near Lake Michigan.

No emergency plans were implemented at the Fermi 2 plant in Monroe County's Frenchtown Township alongside Lake Erie in southeastern Michigan.

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