Credit: FirstEnergy Corportation
Located on the Ohio River, 25 miles northwest of Pittsburgh, the Shippingport Atomic Power Station was the first large-scale central station nuclear power plant in the United States, the first to use a water-cooled breeder core. and the first plant of such size in the world operated solely to produce electric power. Constructed by Westinghouse Electric, the Shippingport plant served as the model for the ten of the first twelve commercial nuclear power plants constructed in the United States.
