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• Bonneville Power Administration seeks efficiency gains

    May 5, 2011 in Business on Page A1 HANFORD – The Columbia Generating Station is undergoing its most expensive refueling and maintenance shutdown ever as the owner of the nuclear plant tries to improve its reliability and costs. … 1

• Reactor undergoes refueling, upgrades

    May 4, 2011 in News HANFORD — The Columbia Generating Station here is undergoing its most expensive refueling and maintenance shutdown ever as the owner of the nuclear plant tries to improve its reliability and …

• Hanford nuclear plant shut down for refueling

  May 4, 2011 on Page A6 RICHLAND – Workers at the Northwest’s only commercial nuclear power plant are nearly midway through the longest refueling outage in the 26-year history of the plant, which has come under …

• Caldwell: Nuclear vision needn’t be clouded

  March 20, 2011 in Business on Page E1 The agonizing struggle of the Japanese to avoid further catastrophe at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex necessarily has many rethinking the rethinking about nuclear energy’s future. Many hoped fission would … 2

• Distance from Japan dilutes danger to state

  March 16, 2011 in City on Page A1 It’s possible that radioactive material released as a result of fires, partial meltdowns and explosions reported at Japanese reactors will be detected in Washington, but highly unlikely that levels could …

• Energy Northwest joins nuclear waste lawsuit

  April 5, 2010 in Business, City Energy Northwest has joined other utilities in a lawsuit challenging continued imposition of a surcharge on electricity generated from nuclear power plants.