Nuclear power in the United Kingdom stated "We are an insurance policy for long-term stable supply and there is a price for that certainty". The UK has a large variety of different intermediate- and high-level radioactive wastes, coming from national programmes to develop nuclear weapons and nuclear power. It is a national responsibility to pay for the management of these. In addition, new nuclear power stations could be built, the waste management from which would be the private sector's financial responsibility, although all would be stored in a single facility. Most of the UK's higher-activity radioactive waste is currently held in temporary storage at Sellafield. On
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,