COVERT TOWNSHIP, Michigan — It is generally considered uncommon for someone to stay with one company their entire career. Yet for many employees at the Palisades Nuclear Plant, it is something that just makes sense.

Steve McDonald, 57, of Holland, Michigan, has worked at the power plant that sits along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan since the 1990s, when he left the Navy. Now, more than 30 years later, McDonald said he plans to retire just months before the power plant may make history as the first decommissioned facility to come back online in the United States.