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How Pennsylvania Is Fostering A Nuclear Renaissance in the Making

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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 13:31:46 +0000

Pennsylvania has been a hotspot for nuclear power since the advent of commercial nuclear power, which it pioneered with first power from the 60-MW Shippingport Atomic Power Station near Pittsburgh […]

The post How Pennsylvania Is Fostering A Nuclear Renaissance in the Making appeared first on POWER Magazine.

The first large-scale nuclear power plant in the world began operating in Shippingport, Pennsylvania, on December 2, 1957—15 years after Enrico Fermi demonstrated the first sustained nuclear reaction. The Duquesne Light Company of Pittsburgh built and operated the Shippingport Atomic Power Station on a site it owned on the Ohio River until the power plant was retired in 1982. Source: Library of Congress

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