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      Columbiana County EMA » Beaver Valley Power Station



   
BEAVER VALLEY POWER STATION
SHIPPINGPORT, PA 15077

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.