Shippingport, Pennsylvania

Beaver County

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Shippingport is a municipality ( borough ) in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. At the 2000 census, lived 237 inhabitants to 9.3 km ². The village is mainly known as the site of the first nuclear power plant in the eastern United States, the nuclear power station Shippingport.

Shippingport is located in the west of Beaver County on the left bank of the Ohio River. The village is dominated by two power plants - the Beaver Valley nuclear power plant in the west and the coal-fired Bruce Mansfield power plant one kilometer northeast. The residential areas Shipping ports are located between these two huge power plants. Across the bridge of the Pennsylvania Route 168 is a connection to Midland at the opposite shore.

History

In the 19th century Shippingport was not much more than a small settlement on a Ferry, formerly known as Christler 's Landing. Some became famous for the place in 1850 as a yard square of some river steamers. At a Borought Shippingport was in 1910, the community arose from the eastern part of Greene townships and part of the Raccoon townships.

1954 construction began on the first civilian nuclear reactor in the U.S., the nuclear power station Shippingport, that was until 1982. The first reactor of the much larger nuclear plants Beaver Valley was from 1976 to the network, in the same year followed by Unit 1 of the Bruce Mansfield power plant. Shippingport was chosen as the site because of its location on the Ohio River, the river supplies the power plants with cooling water and is used as a transport route for the huge quantities of coal.