Rainier, Oregon
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Rainier is a city in Columbia County, Oregon, United States. As of the 2020 census, Rainier had a population of 1,911. Rainier is on the south bank of the Columbia River across from Kelso and Longview
Rainier, Oregon
A panorama of Rainier, Oregon, from Longview, Washington. This is a montage of eight separate photographs and can be scrolled.
View across the Columbia River in 1973
Rainier City Hall
Trojan Nuclear Power Plant
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Trojan Nuclear Power Plant was a pressurized water reactor nuclear power plant in the northwest United States, located 30 miles north of Portland, Oregon and southeast of Rainier, Oregon. It is thus f
Rainier, Oregon
…the city. Rainier was incorporated in 1881. For much of the last quarter of the twentieth century, Rainier was known to the rest of Oregon as home to Trojan Nuclear Power Plant, the only commercial nuclear reactor in the state, which supplied electricity to Portland and its suburbs starting in March 1976. The reactor was closed…
May 2006, shortly before demolition
Two people fishing near the Trojan Nuclear Power Plant. The reactor dome is visible on the left, and the massive cooling tower on the right.
The site in 2022. Site of the water cooling tower is in the foreground.
1993 Trojan Mug