County supervisors last night overturned a decision by the Planning Commission seeking to block plans for a substation ...

But in Washington State, a government-led effort has just started to build what is expected to be the country’s largest solar generating station.

In the shadow of the Columbia Generation Station, a new nuclear reactor will be built, thanks to a $500 million investment from Amazon.

BPA markets wholesale electrical power from 31 dams, including on the Columbia and Snake rivers, and the Columbia Generating Station, a nuclear power plant 10 miles from the Tri-Cities.

World War II’s Manhattan Project created the reactor-studded Hanford nuclear reservation. The region is home to the Columbia Generating Station, Washington’s only power reactor.

Hanford also hosts a nuclear facility, the 1.23 GW Columbia Generating Station, which has been operational since Aug. 1, 1972.

However, the findings put Columbia Generating Station among three of 94 nuclear power plant sites in the United States with performance issues requiring additional inspections.

Pipefitters on Energy Northwest Columbia Generating station outage for nuclear power plant at Richland, WA sue over plutonium contamination.

The Columbia Generating Station nuclear plant on leased Hanford land generates about 1.2 gigawatts of electricity, or 10% of the electricity used in the state of Washington.

By way of comparison, the Columbia Generating Station nuclear plant on leased Hanford land generates about 1.2 gigawatts of electricity, or 10% of the electricity used in the state of Washington.

The reactors are planned to be installed just north of Richland and near the Columbia Generating Station, the sole nuclear power plant in the Pacific Northwest.