Shippingport NPP

Shippingport Atomic Power Station is a closed nuclear power plant in the northeastern United States in close proximity to the existing Beaver Valley nuclear power plant .

Shippingport NPP
Shippingport Atomic Power Station
A country	USA
Location	Beaver , PA
The year the construction began	1954
Commissioning	1957
Removal from service
Operating organization	Dqe
Equipment specifications
Number of power units	one
Type of Reactors	Pwr
Closed reactors	one
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The station is located in Beaver County, Pennsylvania , 40 km from the city of Pittsburgh .

Shippingport NPP is the first nuclear power plant in the USA and America. The construction of the first US nuclear power plant was started on September 6, 1954, several months after the launch of the world's first nuclear power plant - Obninsk NPP in the USSR . On May 26, 1958, Shippingport Nuclear Power Plant was commissioned.

Foreign researchers consider Shippingport to be the first commercial nuclear power plant in the world. The cost of building a nuclear power plant amounted to 72.5 million dollars.

In total, one PWR reactor with a total capacity of 68 MW was installed at the NPPs. 25 years after the launch on October 1, 1982, the reactor was shut down and dismantling of Shippingport station was started. The dismantling of the station began in September 1985. In December 1988, a reactor weighing 956 tons was sent for disposal. The dismantling of Shippingport NPP was an excellent example of the successful closure of a nuclear power plant, and served as a kind of training for American companies ^[1] .