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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 ...
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 .
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 ...
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.
Beaver Valley Nuclear Generating Station near Shippingport; Limerick Nuclear Power Plant in Limerick Township, Montgomery County; Peach Bottom Nuclear Generating Station in Peach Bottom Township, York County; Susquehanna Steam Electric Station in Salem Township; Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station near Harrisburg
When the plant was up and running, using nine nuclear reactors and five reprocessing plants, it produced about 65% of the plutonium used by the US government. The Hanford Test Reactor, which was ...
US nuclear power plants, highlighting recently and soon-to-be retired plants, as of 2013 (US EIA). Nuclear power plant locations and nameplate capacity of the top 10 states. Power plants map August 2016. This article lists the largest nuclear power stations in the United States, in terms of Nameplate capacity.
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]