The outage brings approximately 18-hundred workers to DeWitt County and Gabe Goldsmith, Communications Manager at the Clinton Power Station, indicates they essentially shut down the plant for routine maintenance and refueling for about a month.

 

 

Electricians, pipe fitters and carpenters are amont the numerous trades they bring for the outage and Goldsmith indicates the work at the station is a 24-hour process.

 

 

The outage is a huge boost to the local economy. Goldsmith says over the course of the next month, these contracted workers will stay in the local hotels and eat at local restaurants.

 

 

The plant officially went offline Monday morning and the refueling should allow for a two-year operating cycle.