Shippingport Power Station

1953

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Shippingport Power Station
  • Title
  • Shippingport Power Station
  • Creator
  • Samuel A. Musgrave
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B031.F06.I02
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B031.F06.I02
  • Description
  • The Shippingport Atomic Power Station, located on the Ohio River in Shippingport, Pennsylvania, was opened by President Dwight Eisenhower on May 26, 1958, as a part of the “Atoms for Peace” program following World War II. Shippingport was the first commercial, central electric-generation station in the United States that utilized nuclear energy. The plant was designed by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, who worked in conjunction with the Division of Naval Reactors of the Atomic Energy Commission. Power first originated from the Shippingport station on December 18, 1957, providing energy to the Pittsburgh area. Twenty years later it became home to the United States’ first light water breeder reactor. The station was jointly run by the Duquesne Light Company and the United States Department of Energy. In 1984 the federal government decommissioned the plant and began the process of dismantling the facility. In 1989 dismantling was completed, making the Shippingport Atomic Power Station the first nuclear plant to be decommissioned and dismantled.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Atomic power-plants--Pennsylvania--Shippingport.
    Duquesne Light Company.Shippingport Power Station.
    Ohio River.
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
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