Beaver Valley Nuclear Generating Station

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Beaver Valley
Status
Utility FirstEnergy
Location Shippingport, Pennsylvania
Reactor supplier Westinghouse
Reactor type Pressurized water reactor
Steam generators 3
Capacity Unit 1: 810 megawatts
Unit 2: 831 megawatts
Architect Stone & Webster
Cost
Construction
Built
Commercial operation Unit 1: 1976-07-02
Unit 2: 1987-08-14
License expiration Unit 1: 2016-01-29
Unit 2: 2027-05-27

Beaver Valley Power Station is a nuclear power plant covering 500 acres (2 km²) near Shippingport, Pennsylvania, 34 miles (54 km) west by north of Pittsburgh.

The Beaver Valley plant is owned by First Energy Nuclear Operating Corporation. FirstEnergy is the holding company for Ohio Edison, Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company, Toledo Edison, Metropolitan Edison, Jersey Central Power and Light, and the Pennsylvania Power Company.

This plant has two Westinghouse pressurized water reactors.

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While the Shippingport Reactor has been decommissioned, Beaver Valley Units 1 and 2 are still licensed and in operation.

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U.S. NRC Licensed Nuclear Power Plants (decomissioned or inactive plants are in parentheses and italic)

Arkansas · Arnold · Beaver Valley · (Bellefonte) · (Big Rock Point) · Braidwood · Browns Ferry · Brunswick · Byron · Callaway · Calvert Cliffs · (CVTR) · Catawba · Clinton · Columbia · Comanche · Cook · Cooper · (Connecticut Yankee) · Crystal River · Davis-Besse · Diablo Canyon · (Dresden) · (EBR I) · (EBR II) · (Elk River) · Fermi · Farley · Fitzpatrick · Fort Calhoun · (Fort St. Vrain) · Ginna · Grand Gulf · Harris · Hatch · Hope Creek · Indian Point · Kewaunee · La Crosse · LaSalle · Limerick · (Maine Yankee) · McGuire · Millstone · Monticello · Nine Mile Point · North Anna · Oconee · Oyster Creek · Palisades · Palo Verde · Pathfinder · Peach Bottom · Perry · Pilgrim · (Piqua) · Point Beach · Prairie Island · Quad Cities · (Rancho Seco) · River Bend · Robinson · Salem · San Onofre · (Santa Susana) · Seabrook · Sequoyah · (SL-1) · (Shippingport) · (Shoreham) · South Texas · St. Lucie · Surry · Summer · Susquehanna · Three Mile Island · (Trojan) · Turkey Point · (Vallecitos) · Vermont Yankee · Vogtle · Waterford · Watts Bar · Wolf Creek · (Yankee Rowe) · (Zion)
Proposed U.S. Nuclear Power Plants

Black Fox Nuclear Power Plant (failed) · Galena Nuclear Power Plant (future proposal)


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