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The Apollo affair or NUMEC affair was a 1965 incident in which a US company, NUMEC, in the Pittsburgh suburbs of Apollo and Parks Township, Pennsylvania was investigated for losing 200–600 pounds (91–272 kg) of highly enriched uranium, with suspicions that it had gone to Israel's nuclear weapons program.
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 ...
Westinghouse's Nuclear Power Division adapted the PWR design for commercial use and built the first commercial nuclear power plant in the United States, the Shippingport Power Plant in the west hills of Pittsburgh. [4] The laboratory had two supercomputers listed on the 26th TOP500 List (November 2005).
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]
Pages in category "Nuclear power plants in Pennsylvania" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Pennsylvania officials have lifted shelter-in-place and evacuation orders near a manufacturing facility that caught on fire Monday night, but the blaze is still not out.. The fire is “not ...
This is a list of Superfund sites in Pennsylvania designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law.The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
Groundhog Club handler A.J. Dereume holds Punxsutawney Phil in Punxsutawney, Pa., in 2023. Pennsylvania’s Punxsutawney Phil might be the most well-known weather-predicting groundhog, but a new ...