Shippingport News

SHIPPINGPORT, PA.: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says a leak was discovered at a western Pennsylvania reactor, but workers quickly resolved it and no radioactive release was reported.

Westinghouse Electric Company will announce that it is in advanced discussions with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority concerning a new organizational arrangement for the UK Fuel site at Springfields near Preston.

Downtown will be ground zero for G-20 protesters, but law enforcement, energy companies and other industrial firms are taking steps to protect facilities outside city limits as well.

Beginning next month, the Department of Health will provide free potassium iodide, or KI, tablets to people who live or work within a 10-mile radius of the Beaver Valley Power Station in Shippingport and the state's four other nuclear power plants.

The Midland Police Department continued its crackdown on illegal drug activity in the Borough recently.

Barry Brook traces the history of nuclear power. Today, about 440 nuclear power reactors are in use, known as Generation 2 reactors.

Jun 29, 2009 11:59 pm US/Eastern Reporting Ralph Iannotti SHIPPINGPORT 1 of 1 First Energy, which operates a coal-fired power plant along the Ohio River, traps the fly ash and sulfur dioxide in the combustion process and pumps it through an underground pipe into the Little Blue Reservoir.

The Environmental Protection Agency named Shippingport among 26 communities in 10 states where residents are potentially threatened by coal ash storage ponds similar to one that flooded a neighborhood in Tennessee last year.

The Associated Press 42 comments Coal smoke and steam vapor pour out of the Bruce Mansfield Power Plant over a nearby residential... Coal smoke and steam vapor pour out of the Bruce Mansfield Power Plant over a nearby residential area in Shippingport, Pa.