Updated Mar 26, 2004 When will FirstEnergy be ready to restart Davis-Besse? Let's ask them: Quotations are either directly from FirstEnergy spokespeople or are reporters' paraphrases of FirstEnergy statements

2002 Mar 14: "through May and possibly June," Akron Beacon Journal Mar 14: "up to 90 days," Cleveland Plain Dealer Mar 17: "end of May," Akron Beacon Journal Mar 23: "the June date was always tentative and its possible this plant will remain closed well into the summer," Akron Beacon Journal Mar 25: "three months," Reuters Mar 26: "no later than the end of June," Akron Beacon Journal Mar 27: "late June," Toledo Blade Mar 29: "at least June," Port Clinton News Herald Apr 1: "June," Associated Press Apr 4: "at least the end of June," Akron Beacon Journal Apr 25: "September at the earliest," Akron Beacon Journal May 21: "at least the end of September," Akron Beacon Journal May 22: "end of the year," Toledo Blade May 24: "by October," Port Clinton News Herald May 29: "by year's end," Toledo Blade Jun 14: "no later than December 31," Toledo Blade Jul 16: "the end of the year," Cleveland Plain Dealer Jul 17: "sometime before the end of the year," Akron Beacon Journal Jul 19: "year's end," Akron Beacon Journal Aug 7: "year's end," Cleveland Plain Dealer Aug 13: "not before the end of the year," Port Clinton News Herald Aug 14: "before the end of the year," Toledo Blade Sep 5: "year's end," Cleveland Plain Dealer Sep 6: "FirstEnergy has bought Davis-Besse replacement power into the spring. . . on the chance Davis-Besse must remain idle," Cleveland Plain Dealer Sep 9: "by December," Cleveland Plain Dealer Sep 10: "before December 31," Toledo Blade Sep 18: "back at full power on December 7," Toledo Blade Sep 24: "possible restart on December 4," Toledo Blade Sep 24: "December 7," Cleveland Plain Dealer Sep 29: "this year," New York Times Oct 4: "early Dec," Toledo Blade Oct 5: "end of the year," Akron Beacon Journal Oct 7: "early next year," Associated Press Nov 1: "next year," Associated Press Nov 14: "early February," Toledo Blade Nov 27: "into February if not later," Cleveland Plain Dealer Dec 1: "late January or February," Cleveland Plain Dealer Dec 2: "January," Port Clinton News Herald Dec 4: "early next year," Dow Jones Dec 5: "February or March," Cleveland Plain Dealer Dec 5: "most likely in March," Toledo Blade Dec 5: "April," Akron Beacon Journal Dec 11: "March," Cleveland Plain Dealer Dec 24: "April," Akron Beacon Journal Dec 24: "early April," Cleveland Plain Dealer 2003 Jan 7: "as early as late March," Toledo Blade Jan 8: "by the end of March," Cleveland Plain Dealer Jan 9: "the end of March," Akron Beacon Journal Jan 15: "by April 1," Akron Beacon Journal Jan 15: "late March," Toledo Blade Jan 21: "by April 1," Akron Beacon Journal Jan 31: "in April," Cleveland Plain Dealer Feb 4: "by April 1," Akron Beacon Journal Feb 4: "April," Cleveland Plain Dealer Feb 5: "end of the first quarter of 2003," Toledo Blade Feb 14: "mid-April," Akron Beacon Journal Feb 22: "in April," Fremont News-Messenger Mar 5: "in the April time frame," Akron Beacon Journal Mar 6: "sometime in April," Cleveland Plain Dealer Mar 7: "much of the work at the plant expected to be finished by April," Fremont News Messenger Mar 29: "delayed indefinitely," Toledo Blade Mar 30: "in April or May," Associated Press Apr 4: "by May," "I don't know. I don't think anybody knows," Cleveland Plain Dealer Apr 5: "soon after [May]," Associated Press Apr 5: "delayed indefinitely," Toledo Blade Apr 9: "may be ready to restart in May," Akron Beacon Journal Apr 15: "a good possibility . . . slip into June," Reuters Apr 16: "by mid-June," Toledo Blade Apr 16: "no sooner than mid-June," Akron Beacon Journal Apr 16: "mid or late June," Cleveland Plain Dealer May 1: "end of June or early July," Akron Beacon Journal May 1: "July," Toledo Blade May 1: "July or later," Cleveland Plain Dealer May 4: "early this summer," New York Times May 7: "sometime during the summer," Port Clinton News Herald May 7: "within two or three months," Associated Press May 8: "at least mid to late summer," Toledo Blade May 9: "spring of 2003," SEC Form 10-K May 15: "August," Reuters May 17: "no date has been set," Cleveland Plain Dealer May 18: "in August," Toledo Blade Jun 4: "the first part of August," Cleveland Plain Dealer Jun 21: "possibly by the end of the summer," Gannett News Service Jul 2: ". . . the August time-frame. It's going to be close. There may be a few weeks difference. It depends on whose calendar you're looking at," Cleveland Plain Dealer Jul 4: "at least September," Toledo Blade Jul 9: "late August or possibly the first week or two in September," Port Clinton News Herald Jul 23: "late September," Reuters Jul 24: "in the fall," FirstEnergy Jul 25: "the plant might not be ready until late fall, possibly December. 'We’re not going to characterize it as whether it’s early fall, middle fall, or late fall. It’s the fall'" Toledo Blade Aug 13: "sometime this fall, I would guess, unless something breaks we don’t understand,'" Toledo Blade Aug 21: "within three months,'" Associated Press Sep 2: "expected to positioned for restart in the Fall 2003," presentation to Lehman Brothers Sep 6: "hopefully that will be done here this fall," Akron Beacon Journal Sep 23: "could be ready for restart by early November," Toledo Blade Oct 1: "four to six weeks," Akron Beacon Journal Oct 8: "November 25," Akron Beacon Journal Oct 15: "mid to late-November," Reuters Oct 23: "before the end of the year," FirstEnergy 3rd-quarter earnings conference Nov 6: "perhaps by the end of this month," USA TODAY Nov 7: "soon after Thanksgiving," Cleveland Plain Dealer Nov 7: "sometime in December," WTOL TV-11 Nov 12: "on or about Nov. 24," Akron Beacon Journal Nov 13: "By the end of the year," Cleveland Plain Dealer Dec 18: "next month," Cleveland Plain Dealer Dec 19: "shortly," U.S. NRC meeting Dec 19: "soon," Associated Press Dec 20: "in the next several weeks," Akron Beacon Journal Dec 20: "well within our sight," Toledo Blade Dec 23: "as early as next month," Reuters Dec 30: "in several weeks," Reuters 2004 Jan 12: "could push restart into February," Reuters Jan 14: "soon," Toledo Blade Jan 17: "won't reopen before February," Akron Beacon Journal Jan 22: "past Feb. 16," Cleveland Plain Dealer Jan 22: "nobody from the company ventured a guess," Toledo Blade Feb 6: "by the end of March," Cleveland Plain Dealer Feb 19: "in the March timeframe," FirstEnergy 4th-quarter 2003 earnings conference Feb 28: "we're very close," Toledo Blade Mar 8: "full power within two weeks," FirstEnergy release Mar 9: "begin splitting atoms tonight," Cleveland Plain Dealer Mar 9: "begin generating electricity by the end of the week," Fremont News-Messenger Mar 9: "Davis-Besse is expected to reach 15 percent power capacity. . .Monday," Toledo Blade Mar 10: "a timetable to put electricity on the power grid was pushed back to the weekend," Reuters Mar 16: "restarted early in the morning and by afternoon was running at 21 percent of full power," Associated Press Mar 17: "operators will have to shut down the reactor today. . . hopes to have the reactor producing power again sometime next week," Cleveland Plain Dealer Mar 24: "doesn't expect to be generating electricity again. . . until at least next week," Toledo Blade Mar 25: "on the grid next week. . . barring minor equipment glitches. . . .We're not in any rush to get this equipment on line," Morgan Stanley Global Electricity and Energy Conference Mar 26: "restarted the reactor at about 5 this morning, and the facility might reconnect to the regional power grid over the weekend. . . As of 8 a.m., the nuclear plant was running at 2 percent power" Port Clinton News Herald