After delays from nuclear power opponents, Unit 2 was granted a full-term, full-power operating license (DPR-27) on March 8, 1973, almost 1+1⁄2 years behind the original schedule.

This entailed significant upgrades to several plant systems and components, including safety-related pumps and valves, as well as the turbine-generator sets.

The decision announcement was expected in July 2022, however this was delayed as the NRC required additional environmental impact evaluation be completed.

Most of the power from this plant goes to the Green Bay area[13] and communities along the Lake Michigan shoreline of Southeastern Wisconsin.

Another one interconnects with the now-closed Kewaunee Nuclear Generating Station located a short distance north of Point Beach.

[citation needed] In November 2020, construction of the nearby 150 MW Two Creeks Solar Park was completed, at a cost of $195 million.

Total Total The Nuclear Regulatory Commission defines two emergency planning zones around nuclear power plants: a plume exposure pathway zone with a radius of 10 miles (16 km), concerned primarily with exposure to, and inhalation of, airborne radioactive contamination, and an ingestion pathway zone of about 50 miles (80 km), concerned primarily with ingestion of food and liquid contaminated by radioactivity.

[17] The 2010 U.S. population within 10 miles (16 km) of Point Beach was 19,975, a decrease of 6.7 percent in a decade, according to an analysis of U.S. Census data for msnbc.com.

[18] The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's estimate of the risk each year of an earthquake intense enough to cause core damage to the reactor at Point Beach was 1 in 90,909, according to an NRC study published in August 2010.