Big Rock was Michigan's first nuclear power plant and the nation's fifth. It also produced cobalt-60 for the medical industry from 1971 to 1982. Ground was broken on July 20, 1960.

Feb 22, 2022 · The former Big Rock Nuclear Power Plant in Charlevoix will have a new owner this year. Holtec International plans to take control of the old nuclear plant this summer.

Mar 4, 2022 · Palisades Nuclear Power Plant will permanently cease operations no later than May 31, 2022, according to documents from the NRC, and is located in Cover, Michigan, in Van Buren County on the...

Nov 15, 2017 · Dating back to November 29, 1963, the Big Rock Point plant was concerned with the OB-9 route. One of the first letters from the Atomic Energy Commission’s Director of Regulation addressed this concern.

Operation, decommissioning, and the interim storage of spent nuclear fuel. The Big Rock Point Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI). On July 20, 1960, groundbreaking began for Big Rock Point (BRP), Michigan’s first nuclear plant.

Nov 3, 2006 · United States’ fifth commercial nuclear power plant and Michigan’s first. The plant’s name came from the “big rock”—or “Kitchiossining,” in Anishin-naabemowin, the official language of the Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indi-ans—that still sits at the edge of the lake, not far from the former power plant site.

Big Rock Point — The Journey’s End 1 Consumers Energy has fulfilled its promise to restore the Big Rock Point nuclear plant site to a greenfield — free for unrestricted use by new generations of Michigan residents. The significance of this small 67-megawatt nuclear energy pioneer — …

Jun 28, 2022 · Among the viable proposals for re-purposing the Big Rock Point and Palisades sites, is building Holtec’s SMR-160 advanced light water reactor, the firsts of which are scheduled to enter service in around 2030.

Big Rock Point, the first nuclear power plant built by Consumers Power, and the fifth investor-owned nuclear power plant in the nation, achieved its first controlled nuclear reaction September 27, 1962. ELECTRIC POWER PLUS NUCLEAR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT On December 8, 1962, the plant began producing electricity. By June, 1964, Big Rock Point ...

Sep 30, 2024 · Big Rock Point was a nuclear power plant near Charlevoix, Michigan. Big Rock operated from 1962 to 1997. It was owned and operated by Consumers Power, now known as Consumers Energy. Its boiling water reactor was made by General Electric (GE) and was capable of producing 67 megawatts of electricity.