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Shippingport is a borough in western Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States, located along the Ohio River. The population was 160 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] It is part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area .
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 and Industry: 1936 Vanport Bridge: I-376: Potter Township and Vanport Township: 1968 Beaver Bridge: CSX Transportation Pittsburgh Subdivision: Monaca and Beaver: 1910 Rochester–Monaca Bridge: PA 18
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.
Pennsylvania Route 168 (PA 168) is a highway in Western Pennsylvania that runs for 55 miles (89 km) from PA 18 in Frankfort Springs to PA 208 in Volant. PA 168 intersects or runs concurrently with PA 18 at several points, including in New Castle .
Pennsylvania Route 68 (PA 68) is a 90.036-mile-long (144.899 km) east–west state highway located in western Pennsylvania in the United States. The western terminus of the route is at the Ohio state line west of Glasgow, where PA 68 continues into Ohio as State Route 39 (SR 39). The eastern terminus is at U.S. Route 322 (US 322) in Clarion.
There are five inactive reactors in PA, including Three Mile Island, which had a partial meltdown and caused a reevaluation of nuclear reactor safety practices. Nuclear power has a significant history in Pennsylvania, beginning in 1954 with the establishment of the first commercial, peace-time plant in America, the Shippingport Atomic Power ...
The Shippingport Bridge is a cantilevered, through truss bridge that carries Pennsylvania Route 168 across the Ohio River [1] between Shippingport, Pennsylvania and Industry, Pennsylvania. Built in 1961, [ 1 ] the southern approach to this bridge is adjacent to the Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Station .