Peach Bottom Nuclear Generating Station
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Peach Bottom NGS, a nuclear power plant, is located 60 miles (97 km) south of Harrisburg in Peach Bottom Township, York County, Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River.
The history of Peach Bottom is a long one. The Philadelphia Electric Company (later shortened first to PECO Energy and later to just PECO) became one of the pioneers in the commercial nuclear industry when it ordered Peach Bottom 1 in 1958. The U.S.'s first nuclear power plant (the Shippingport Reactor) had gone on line a year earlier. Peach Bottom Unit 1 was an experimental helium-cooled, graphite-moderated reactor. It operated from 1966 to 1974. The other two units, General Electric boiling water reactors, are still in operation on the 620 acre (2.5 km²) site.
Peach Bottom is operated by the Exelon Corporation and is jointly owned by Exelon (50%) and PSEG Power LLC (50%).
Peach Bottom was one of the plants analyzed in the NUREG-1150 safety analysis study.
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