Covert Township

Operating status means the plant is allowed to receive new nuclear fuel. It is not yet generating power. It is the first nuclear plant in the U.S. to ever return to operations after going into decommissioning status.

Today, the unprecedented process behind re-opening a shuttered nuclear power plant. Then, a look into the quality of life after cancer treatments. Later, the music of Frontier Ruckus.

What reopening the Palisades nuclear power plant might mean for nearby communities, where hemlock wooly adelgids are found in Michigan and how they are managed, and a look at the Laurentide Ice Sheet's history in the Great Lakes.

The Palisades Nuclear Plant in Covert Township could be the first shuttered nuclear facility to reopen in the U.S.