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 …

This plant was the first large-scale commercial nuclear power plant in the United States, built just 40 miles from Pittsburgh in Beaver County. At this time, nuclear reactor design for energy generation …

Located in Western Pennsylvania, the plant operated from 1958 to 1982, generating 7.4 billion kilowatt-hours of energy in those 25 years. The power station was developed in the era post-WWII and …

Throughout its more than a quarter of a Century of history, Shippingport Atomic Power Station has been in the forefront of the development of nuclear technology.

Dec 2, 2017 · Heavy construction was started in March 1955, and the plant was ready to receive the reactor vessel from Combustion Engineering in October 1956. One year later, the fuel was loaded in …

Nov 8, 2025 · The Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania was the first full-scale civilian nuclear power plant in the United States. Its construction resulted from the Atomic Energy Act of …

Report on the reactor design, engineering performance criteria, and the safety and environmental impacts of the Light Water Breeder Reactor then being developed by Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory …

Nov 1, 2025 · In the hills of western Pennsylvania, a monument to the Atomic Age once generated power for the nation. The Shippingport Nuclear Power Plant was America's first commercial nuclear …

Shippingport was created and operated under the auspices of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, whose authority included a substantial role within the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC).

From 1984 to 1989, Shippingport again made history as the first nuclear plant to be decommissioned and dismantled. As a result of the successful decommissioning strategy, important precedents were …