Columbiana County Emergency Management Agency

Formerly known as Shippingport Atomic Power Station, Beaver Valley Power
Station is located in northwestern Beaver County, Pennsylvania, immediately
on the Ohio River and 4.7 miles northeast of Columbiana County.

Beaver Valley Power Station is owned and operated by Akron, Ohio based First
Energy Corporation, a registered public utility holding company who in addition
to Beaver Valley operates the Davis-Besse and Perry nuclear plants located in
Ohio.

The Beaver Valley Power Station is a two unit power plant located in western
Pennsylvania near the Ohio border. The plant was built in anticipation of
increased electricity demand. The blackout in the northeastern part of the
United States in 1965 was considered evidence of the need for expanded
capacity.

The first commercial central electric-generating station in the United States to
use nuclear energy was the Shippingport Atomic Power Station of the
Department of Energy and the Duquesne Light Company. In a dramatic
high-tech display, ground was broken in 1954 during dedication ceremonies
by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who also opened it on May 26,1958, as
part of his "Atoms for Peace" program. The first power at Shippingport was
produced on December 18, 1957, and was fed into the grid for the Pittsburgh
area. Owned by the Department of Energy, the reactor plant was shut down
on October 1, 1982 and decommissioned in December 1989.

Beaver Valley Power Station Unit #1 began producing electricity in 1976 and
Unit #2 in 1987.

The Emergency Preparedness (EP) program for the Beaver Valley Power Plant
in Pennsylvania, includes onsite emergency response readiness and
coordination with offsite state and local emergency response organizations.
The 10-mile emergency planning zone (EPZ) for Beaver Valley includes three
States, Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.