page_title: Shippingport, Pennsylvania
section_title: Nuclear energy
hierarchical_section_title: Shippingport, Pennsylvania / Nuclear energy
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of the Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Shippingport, Pennsylvania, the first full-scale nuclear power generating station in the United States which began operating in 1957.
context_page_description: Shippingport is a borough in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States, located along the Ohio River. The population was 214 at the 2010 census.
  Shippingport is home to the Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Station and the Bruce Mansfield Power Plant.
context_section_description: Shippingport is the site of the United States' first commercial nuclear power plant, the Shippingport Atomic Power Station, which began operation in 1957. Although the original Shippingport reactor was decommissioned in 1982, the Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Station Units 1 and 2 from the same site have been in operation since 1976 and 1987, respectively.
caption: Shippingport Reactor in 1957.
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