SHIPPINGPORT, Pa. — The last time that I stood on these grounds along the Ohio River in Beaver County was 1976, 19 years after the first commercial nuclear power plant in the United States opened here.
My Perry High School physics teacher, David Burrows, had loaded a handful of us into a van for a field trip to the atomic station and to the coal-fired Bruce Mansfield plant next door.
What Mr. Burrows and I both still remember is the climb — 20 flights up metal bar-grating stairs to the top of a cavernous industrial cathedral built to house Mansfield’s multi-story steam boilers — and the…
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