Big Rock Point Nuclear Power Plant

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Big Rock Point Nuclear Power Plant
Big Rock Point Nuclear Power Plant
location
Coordinates	45 ° 21 '32 "  N , 85 ° 11' 50"  W Coordinates: 45 ° 21 '32 "  N , 85 ° 11' 50"  W.
Country:	United States
Data
Owner:	Consumers Power (now Consumers Energy)
Operator:	Consumers Power (now Consumers Energy)
Project start:	1959
Commercial operation:	March 29, 1963
Shutdown:	Aug 29, 1997
Decommissioned reactors (gross):	1 (71 MW)
Energy fed in since commissioning:	12,738 GWh
Was standing:	March 17, 2008
The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation .

The Big Rock Point nuclear power plant ( English Big Rock Point Nuclear Power Plant ) in Charlevoix ( Michigan ) had a boiling water reactor from General Electric and a net electrical output of 67 MW. It was in operation from 1962 to 1997.

history

Big Rock Point was Michigan's first nuclear power plant. The reactor also produced ⁶⁰ Co for the medical industry.

On January 7, 1971, a B-52 bomber crashed on a training flight with a live bomb load not far from the power station. All 9 crew members died in the crash in Lake Michigan.

Closure and shutdown

The power plant was shut down on August 29, 1997 at 10:33 a.m. (EST) before the license to operate expired in 2000.

The approximately 107-ton reactor was shipped to Barnwell on October 7, 2003.

The rest of the nuclear power plant was demolished. Except for eight containers with spent fuel elements, nothing reminds of the former power plant. The new owner of the Entergy site took over responsibility for the nuclear waste as part of the purchase of the Palisades nuclear power plant . The cost of decommissioning and demolishing the power plant was $ 390 million.

Data of the reactor block

The Big Rock Point nuclear power plant had one power plant unit :

Reactor block	Reactor type	net power	gross power	start of building	Network synchronization	Commercialization of essential operation	switching off processing
Big Rock Point	Boiling water reactor	67 MW	71 MW	05/01/1960	December 8, 1962	03/29/1963	08/29/1997

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1. ↑ ^{a b} Power Reactor Information System of the IAEA : Reactor Details - Big Rock Point , accessed on December 3, 2013 (English)
2. ^ Charles Perrow: Normal Disasters , 1988
3. ^ Aviation Safety Network : ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 48334