Sellafield annual costs of operating Sellafield increased from £900 million to about £1.6 billion. The estimated lifetime undiscounted cost of dealing with the Sellafield site increased to £67.5 billion. Bosses were forced to apologise after projected clean-up costs passed the £70 billion mark in late 2013. In 2014, the undiscounted decommissioning cost estimate for Sellafield was increased to £79.1 billion, and by 2015 to £117.4 billion. The annual operating cost will be £2 billion in 2016. Following the decision taken by the British government in January 1947 to develop nuclear weapons, Sellafield was chosen as the location of the plutonium production
Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Station an earthquake intense enough to cause core damage to the reactor at Beaver Valley was Reactor 1: 1 in 20,833; Reactor 2: 1 in 45,455, according to an NRC study published in August 2010. Beaver Valley 1 was used as the reference design for the French nuclear plant at Fessenheim. Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Station Beaver Valley Power Station is a nuclear power plant covering near Shippingport, Pennsylvania, United States, roughly northwest of Pittsburgh. The Beaver Valley plant is operated by FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Corporation. This plant has two Westinghouse pressurized water reactors. While the Shippingport Reactor has been decommissioned,