More than 1,200 extra workers are now on site at the Cook nuclear power plant in Bridgman for Unit 2’s 28th refueling outage. “A lot of them come from our local union houses, and then there are others who are kind of journeyman craft workers that travel around the country from outage to outage,” Downey said. And particularly there’s people that love to work the back shift, working those night shift hours. And that’s why, when we have outages, a lot of our local pubs will serve the night shift. It’s very lucrative for our businesses.”Some of the extra staff started arriving at the plant a few months ago to do pre-outage work.