Columbia Generating Station will boost output by 186 MW through $700M upgrade. Three-phase project starts 2027, adds power for 125,000 more Northwest homes. BPA and Energy Northwest aim to extend ...

The Columbia Generating Station, the nuclear power plant north of Richland, produces enough carbon-free electricity to power a city the size of Seattle, plus some of its metro area. It is the ...

The emergency planning zones for a radiation release incident at the Columbia Generating Station or Hanford Site. Courtesy: Franklin County Emergency Management There are three protective measures ...

For the past decade, Energy Northwest has shut down the Columbia Generating Station every other year to add fresh fuel, do maintenance and make improvements that are difficult or impossible when ...

Steam rises from Energy Northwest's Columbia Generating Station, the region's only commercial nuclear reactor, near Richland, Wash., in a 2003 file photo. (The Associated Press) The region's only ...