Shippingport Atomic Power Station, On Ohio River, 25 miles Northwest of Pittsburgh, Shippingport, Beaver County, PA
Summary
Written data based on U.S. Department of Energy booklet, "Shippingport: The Nation's First Atomic Power Station" (1983).
Significance: Operational in December, 1957, Shippingport Atomic Power Station was the first large-scale central station nuclear power plant in the United States and the first plant of such size in the world operated solely to produce electric power; it was the first to have training classes for operators and supervisors; it was the first to use a water-cooled breeder core for a power plant.
Survey number: HAER PA-81
Building/structure dates: 1955- 1957 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1965-1977 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Rickover, Hyman G
Duquesne Light Company
U.S. Department of Energy
Atomic Energy Commission
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory
Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation
Dravo Corporation
Simpson, John W
Gray, John E
Barker, Joseph H
Iselin, Donald G
Combustion Engineering, Incorporated
Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory
Clark, Philip R
Leighton, David T
Mealia, John E
Raab, Harry F
Thomas, Charles R
Vaughn, James W
Union Oil Products, Wolverine Tube Division
Carter, Jimmy
U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Terminal Waste Disposal & Remedial Action, sponsor
Duncan, Francis, historian
Holl, Jack M, historian
Brehl, Dick, photographer
Vandeveer, Dave, photographer
Lever, Jack, photographer
Location
Shippingport (Pa.), 40.63201, -80.41395
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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