The Shippingport Bridge is a cantilevered, through truss bridge that carries Pennsylvania Route 168 across the Ohio River between Shippingport, Pennsylvania and Industry, Pennsylvania .
6-633: Built in 1961, the southern approach to this bridge is adjacent to the Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Station . From 1951 until the opening of this bridge in 1964, PA 168 was accessed across the river via Cooks Ferry. On May 14, 1969, the Chester Bridge (1896–1970) between East Liverpool, Ohio and Chester, West Virginia , which had carried U.S. 30 across the Ohio River, was permanently closed. From that day until November 7, 1977, when
12-509: Is a nuclear power plant on the Ohio River covering 1,000 acres (400 ha) near Shippingport , Pennsylvania , United States , 27 miles (43 km) roughly northwest of Pittsburgh . The plant is operated by Vistra Corp and power is generated by two Westinghouse pressurized water reactors . As of 2023, it is the fourth largest employer in Beaver County. Beaver Valley 1 was used as
18-829: The Jennings Randolph Bridge was opened to traffic, the Shippingport Bridge carried what was temporarily designated as "Detour U.S. 30." That detour used Ohio State Route 39 through the East End of East Liverpool to reach Pennsylvania State Route 68 . It remained on that route through Midland, Pennsylvania , then used Pennsylvania State Route 168 on the Shippingport Bridge to cross the river. From there, it proceeded southwest along highway 168 through Hookstown , where it then turned and rejoined U.S. 30 about 1.4 miles (2.3 km) south of that hamlet. Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Station Beaver Valley Power Station
24-602: The reference design for the French nuclear plant in Fessenheim . In 2018, previous owner FirstEnergy Solutions filed for bankruptcy and announced the plant would begin deactivation by 2021. However, upon emergence from bankruptcy in 2020 as new owner Energy Harbor, the shutdown of the plant was reversed largely due to then Governor Tom Wolf's decision to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative . In 2023, it
30-437: 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 away, located upriver from the station). The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's estimate of the risk each year of an earthquake intense enough to cause core damage to
36-698: Was announced that parent company Energy Harbor will be acquired by retail electricity and power generation company Vistra Corp , who is based in Irving, TX. 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. The 2010 U.S. population within 10 miles (16 km) of Beaver Valley
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