Consumers Power Company announced the construction of a nuclear power plant at Big Rock Point on Lake Michigan four miles northeast of Charlevoix on June 19, 1959. It was the first nuclear plant in Michigan, and the fifth commercial nuclear plant in the United States.
The single unit 67 MW boiling water reactor was shutdown August 29th, 1997.
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