The Midland “Nuclear” Power Plant was never completed; the Consumers Power company ran out of money for the project in the 80’s, iirc. Also there was a sinking foundations issue. It was repurposed in ‘91 as a natural gas cogeneration plant to provide power for the grid and steam heat to the Dow chemical plant that is nearby.
Nuclear power can’t beat the economics of natural gas power generation since the fracking revolution began. There may be a case for 5th generation mini-nukes for towns that are remote from the gas pipelines.
Gotcha. Thanks for clarifying :-)
I was a nuclear engineering intern at Bechtel Power Corporation in Ann Arbor in 1973 and worked on the Midland nuclear power plant project. That was the only reason I knew about what happened to the Midland power plant.