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Beaver Valley Power Station is a nuclear power plant on the Ohio River covering 1,000 acres (400 ha) near Shippingport, Pennsylvania, United States, 27 miles (43 km) roughly northwest of Pittsburgh. The plant is operated by Vistra Corp and power is generated by two Westinghouse pressurized water reactors .
The grant from the new owners of the Beaver Valley Power Station will match donations made to the United Way until May 31.
The Shippingport Atomic Power Station was (according to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission) the world's first full-scale atomic electric power plant devoted exclusively to peacetime uses. [ notes 1 ] [ notes 2 ] [ 2 ] It was located near the present-day Beaver Valley Nuclear Generating Station on the Ohio River in Beaver County, Pennsylvania ...
Shippingport is the site of the United States' first commercial nuclear power plant, the Shippingport Atomic Power Station, which began operation in 1957. [4] Although the original Shippingport reactor was decommissioned in 1982, [ 5 ] the Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Station Units 1 and 2 from the same site have been in operation since 1976 and ...
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The tablets will be available for residents and those who work within a 10 mile radius around the power station. KI tablet distribution taking place Thursday for residents near Beaver Valley Power ...
The Shippingport Atomic Power Station is located along the Ohio River in Beaver County, and it closed down on October 1, 1982. The Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station is located in Londonderry Township along the Susquehanna River. The Nuclear Generating Station suffered from a partial meltdown on March 28, 1979.