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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 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 ...
The grant from the new owners of the Beaver Valley Power Station will match donations made to the United Way until May 31.
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 ...
Pennsylvania electricity production by type. This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, sorted by type and name.In 2022, Pennsylvania had a total summer capacity of 49,066 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 239,261 GWh. [2]
Just prior to the 2:30 p.m. Aug. 6 screening at Sewickley's theater, Jim Clark, current nuclear operator at the Beaver Valley Power Station and docent at the Beaver County Industrial Museum, will ...
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 Station. Since the construction of the Shippingport plant, 8 new nuclear plants have been constructed, 5 of which having already been decommissioned.