FREE: Vintage Big Rock Point Nuclear Plant Consumers Power Company Button / Pin

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Vintage Big Rock Point Nuclear Plant Consumers Power Company Button / Pin

This Vintage Button is in Pretty Good Condition. There are only a few lite scratches and there is no peeling and the pin on the back is intact.

From Wikipdeia:

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. Bechtel Corporation was the primary contractor.

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. Construction was completed in 29 months at a cost of $27.7 million. Its license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission was issued on August 29, 1962. The reactor first went critical on September 27 and the first electricity was generated on December 8, 1962.

This botton has an approx. diam. of 1 3/8"