The present village was built a short distance southeast of the site of Peach Bottom Station.
The post office for the area (ZIP code 17563) is named "Peach Bottom" but is located on Pennsylvania Route 272 just north of Wakefield.
The Peach Bottom Nuclear Generating Station lies across the river, on the site of the original town.
In 2016, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) estimated that a major fire at the spent fuel pool at the Peach Bottom Nuclear Generating Station would displace an estimated 3.46 million people from 31,000 square kilometers of contaminated land, while a study conducted at Princeton University suggested that the number of displaced people could go as high as 18.1 million people.
[4][5] An earlier study from 1975 assessed the nuclear station's ecological impact on fish fauna along the Susquehanna River.