Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Station - Unit 2 Cooling Tower and Reactor Dome

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Channel: Andrew Koch (Dobie Tanpaw) · 2011 · Science & Technology

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This is one of the cooling towers at the Nuclear Power Plant just North-West of of Pittsburgh, PA. If you look closely (And listen carefully) you can see and hear the water flowing at the base of the tower.

Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Station has two Westinghouse 833MW 3-loop Pressurized Water Reactors with 1,641 MW Max Total Generation Capacity, and is operated by First Energy Nuclear Operating Company (FENOC). It covers 500 acres (2 km²) near Shippingport, Pennsylvania, 34 miles (54 km) west by north of Pittsburgh.

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