Big Rock Point was a nuclear power plant near Charlevoix, Michigan, United States.

Consumers Energy had previously announced that Big Rock Point's operating license would not be renewed when it expired on May 31, 2000.

However, economics proved in January 1997 that it was not feasible to keep Big Rock Point running to the license's expiration date.

During the decommissioning process it was discovered that a backup safety system at the plant had been inoperable for at least the previous 14 years.

In the event of a control rod failure during a reactor scram, the LPS system would have drained the boron solution into the core thus halting the nuclear chain reaction.

On January 7, 1971, a B52C (Using radio call sign ‘Hiram 16’) from the bombing group at Westover Air Force Base near Springfield, Massachusetts took off to perform radar bomb scoring in tandem with the Bay Shore RBS group at the Bay Shore RBS Site.

[6] Witnesses observed a fireball falling from the sky with a large associated loud explosion as the B-52C impacted the water at Little Traverse Bay, 5 miles north of the Big Rock Point Nuclear Power Plant.