Beaver Valley Nuclear Generating Station
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| Country | United States |
| Location | Shippingport, Pennsylvania |
| Coordinates | 40°37′24″N 80°25′50″W / 40.62333°N 80.43056°WCoordinates: 40°37′24″N 80°25′50″W / 40.62333°N 80.43056°W |
| Status | Operational |
| Commission date | Unit 1: July 2, 1976 Unit 2: August 14, 1987 |
| Licence expiration | Unit 1: January 29, 2036 Unit 2: May 27, 2047 |
| Operator(s) | FirstEnergy |
| Architect(s) | Stone & Webster |
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| Reactor type(s) | PWR |
| Reactor supplier(s) | Westinghouse |
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| Generation units | 2 |
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| Installed capacity | Unit 1: 970 MW Unit 2: 920 |
| Annual generation | Unit 1: 7,057 GWh Unit 2: 7,473 |
Beaver Valley Power Station is a nuclear power plant covering 1,000 acres (4.0 km2) near Shippingport, Pennsylvania, 34 miles (55 km) west by north of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Beaver Valley plant is operated by FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Corporation. FirstEnergy is the holding company for Ohio Edison, Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company, Toledo Edison, Metropolitan Edison, Jersey Central Power and Light, and the Pennsylvania Power Company.
This plant has two Westinghouse pressurized water reactors.
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While the Shippingport Reactor has been decommissioned, Beaver Valley Units 1 and 2 are still licensed and in operation.
[edit] Surrounding population
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission defines two emergency planning zones around nuclear power plants: a plume exposure pathway zone with a radius of 10 miles (16 km), concerned primarily with exposure to, and inhalation of, airborne radioactive contamination, and an ingestion pathway zone of about 50 miles (80 km), concerned primarily with ingestion of food and liquid contaminated by radioactivity.[1]
The 2010 U.S. population within 10 miles (16 km) of Beaver Valley was 114,514, a decrease of 6.6 percent in a decade, according to an analysis of U.S. Census data for msnbc.com. The 2010 U.S. population within 50 miles (80 km) was 3,140,766, a decrease of 3.7 percent since 2000. Cities within 50 miles include Pittsburgh (27 miles to city center).[2]
[edit] Seismic risk
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's estimate of the risk each year of an earthquake intense enough to cause core damage to the reactor at Beaver Valley was Reactor 1: 1 in 20,833; Reactor 2: 1 in 45,455, according to an NRC study published in August 2010.[3][4]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/emerg-plan-prep-nuc-power-bg.html
- ^ Bill Dedman, Nuclear neighbors: Population rises near US reactors, msnbc.com, April 14, 2011 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42555888/ns/us_news-life/ Accessed May 1, 2011.
- ^ Bill Dedman, "What are the odds? US nuke plants ranked by quake risk," msnbc.com, March 17, 2011 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42103936/ Accessed April 19, 2011.
- ^ http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Sections/NEWS/quake%20nrc%20risk%20estimates.pdf
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