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Bookmark or Share- Shippingport Atomic Power Station - WikipediaThe 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.
- Shippingport Atomic Power Station: Five Fast Facts - ANSOn December 2, 1957, the reactor at the Shippingport Atomic Power Station, which was America's first, full-scale nuclear power plant, was made critical for the very first time. This event occurred fifteen years to the day after the historic first startup of the first nuclear reactor ever - the CP-1 pile near Chicago.
- The legacy of the Shippingport Atomic Power StationServing as the world’s first scalable nuclear power plant, Shippingport Atomic Power Station led the way for today’s nuclear generation fleet. Shippingport was centrally located roughly 25 miles from Pittsburgh, Pa., to provide electrical generation for many end-users.
- #47 Shippingport Nuclear Power Station - The American Society of ...Shippingport Nuclear Power Station is the first US commercial central electric-generating station to use nuclear energy, which is honored as an ASME landmark.
- Shippingport Nuclear Power Station, 1957-1974 - SVHSCalder Hall, built at Sellafield, Cambria, in the U.K., the world’s first nuclear power station (96 MW), went critical and on line in 1956. It generated power to the grid until March 31, 2003, an operating life of 47 years. Shippingport was much more than a power station.
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