Lewis and Clark's Columbia River
Lewis & Clark's Columbia River - "200 Years Later"
"Trojan Nuclear Facility, Rainier, Oregon"
Includes ... Trojan Nuclear Facility ... Trojan Park ... Last Views of the Cooling Tower ... Trojan Implosion, May 21, 2006 ...
Image, 2006, Trojan Nuclear Facility, near Rainier, Oregon, click to enlarge
Click image to enlarge 		Trojan Nuclear Facility, near Rainier, Oregon. Image taken March 19, 2006.


Trojan Nuclear Facility ...
The 634-acre Trojan Nuclear Facility is located at Columbia River Mile (RM) 72.5, just downstream of Coffin Rock, and upstream of Prescott Beach. Prescott Beach is the location of Lewis and Clark's campsite of November 5, 1805. The facility is located one mile downstream of Goble, Oregon and four miles upstream of Rainier, Oregon. On the Washington side is Kalama, Washington and the mouth of the Kalama River.

The Trojan Nuclear Facility began operating in May 1976.

"... The nuclear power plant began operating in May 1976. PGE considered it a successful and work-horse facility, capable of generating 1,130 average megawatts annually, enough electricity to serve an estimated 400,000 homes. ..." [The Oregonian, December 30, 2005]

The nuclear facility was temporarily shut down in 1992 when cracks appeared in the steam generator. It was permanently closed in 1993. The 499-foot-high cooling tower was imploded on May 21, 2006.


Image, 2003, Trojan Nuclear Facility from the Kalama River, click to enlarge
Click image to enlarge 		Trojan Nuclear Facility, Rainier, Oregon, from the Kalama River, Kalama, Washington. Image taken November 9, 2003.
Image, 2006, Trojan Park at the Trojan Nuclear Facility, near Rainier, Oregon, click to enlarge
Click image to enlarge 		Trojan Park at Trojan Nuclear Facility, near Rainier, Oregon. Gene, Corey, and Alex watching the ducks and geese on lake in Trojan Park, while the Cooling Tower rises behind. Image taken March 19, 2006.


Trojan Implosion, May 21, 2006 ...
On May 21, 2006, at 7:00 A.M., the Cooling Tower of the Trojan Nuclear Power Plant was imploded. This web author watched the implosion from at home, with two digital cameras set up in front of the television. One took stills, and the other took "movies". The views from NBC (Channel 8) and ABC (Channel 2) were shot of "live action". The views from FOX (Channel 12) of the implosion from Kalama were shot from replays, with a "live" shot of the remaining scene.
[More Views of the Implosion]

Image, 2006, Trojan Implosion, click to enlarge
Click image to enlarge 		Aerial, "Trojan Implosion", FOX TV-12. View shot from TV coverage. Image taken May 21, 2006.


Trojan - Before and After ...

Image, 2006, Trojan Nuclear Facility, Oregon, from Kalama, Washington click to enlarge
Click image to enlarge 		Trojan Nuclear Facility, Oregon, from Kalama, Washington. View from shore at Kalama Sportsman Club, Kalama, Washington. Image taken April 19, 2006.
Image, 2006, Trojan Nuclear Facility, Oregon, from Kalama, Washington click to enlarge
Click image to enlarge 		No cooling tower ... Trojan Nuclear Facility, Oregon, from Kalama, Washington. View from shore at Kalama Sportsman Club, Kalama, Washington. Image taken May 30, 2006.

Image, 2006, Trojan Nuclear Facility, near Rainier, Oregon, click to enlarge
Click image to enlarge 		Trojan Nuclear Facility, near Rainier, Oregon. Image taken March 19, 2006.
Image, 2006, Trojan Nuclear Facility, near Rainier, Oregon, click to enlarge
Click image to enlarge 		No cooling tower ... Trojan Nuclear Facility, near Rainier, Oregon. Image taken October 31, 2006.
Image, 2013, Trojan Nuclear Facility, near Rainier, Oregon, click to enlarge
Click image to enlarge 		No dome ... Trojan Nuclear Facility, near Rainier, Oregon. Image taken January 11, 2013.


Views ...

Image, 2006, Trojan Nuclear Facility, Oregon, click to enlarge
Click image to enlarge 		Trojan Nuclear Facility, Oregon. View from Trojan entrance. Image taken October 31, 2006.
Image, 2006, Trojan Nuclear Facility, near Rainier, Oregon, click to enlarge
Click image to enlarge 		Trojan Nuclear Facility, near Rainier, Oregon. Image taken October 31, 2006.
Image, 2003, Trojan Nuclear Facility, near Rainier, Oregon, click to enlarge
Click image to enlarge 		Trojan Nuclear Facility, near Rainier, Oregon. Image taken August 29, 2003.
Image, 2006, Trojan Nuclear Facility, Oregon, from Kalama, Washington click to enlarge
Click image to enlarge 		Trojan Nuclear Facility, Oregon, from Kalama, Washington. View from shore at Kalama Sportsman Club, Kalama, Washington. Image taken April 19, 2006.


Trojan, etc.

  • Cooling Tower ...
  • Trojan "Dome" ...
  • Trojan Park ...


Cooling Tower ...
On May 21, 2006, the Trojan Nuclear Facility's Cooling Tower was imploded. It took 8 seconds to reduce the 499-foot-tall cooling tower to a pile of rubble. According to The Oregonian, March 9, 2006, two months before the implosion:

"... an estimated 2,000 pounds of explosives will be embedded in 2,500 hiles drilled into the support legs at the base of the tower and in sections of the shell as high as 250 feet. The implosion, from the first detonation to the settling of the tower, is expected to take about 8 seconds. The tower will fall into itself, and debris will be contained primarily within the structure's imprint of 385 feet diameter. The explosives' placement is designed to give a dlight tilt to the fall so that the debris will spread out slightly -- perhaps 100 feet. ..."

The Trojan Cooling Tower is made of concrete and steel. It never contained radioactive material.


Image, 2006, Trojan Nuclear Facility, near Rainier, Oregon, click to enlarge
Click image to enlarge 		Trojan Nuclear Facility, near Rainier, Oregon. Image taken March 19, 2006.
Image, 2006, Trojan Nuclear Facility, near Rainier, Oregon, click to enlarge
Click image to enlarge 		Trojan Nuclear Facility, near Rainier, Oregon. Image taken March 19, 2006.
Image, 2006, Trojan Nuclear Facility, near Rainier, Oregon, click to enlarge
Click image to enlarge 		Trojan Nuclear Facility, near Rainier, Oregon. Image taken March 19, 2006.
Image, 2006, Trojan Nuclear Facility, near Rainier, Oregon, click to enlarge
Click image to enlarge 		Trojan Nuclear Facility, near Rainier, Oregon. Image taken March 19, 2006.
Image, 2006, Trojan Nuclear Facility, near Rainier, Oregon, click to enlarge
Click image to enlarge 		Trojan Nuclear Facility, near Rainier, Oregon. Image taken March 19, 2006.
Image, 2006, Trojan Nuclear Facility, near Rainier, Oregon, click to enlarge
Click image to enlarge 		Trojan Nuclear Facility, near Rainier, Oregon. The Trojan Cooling Tower is scheduled for demolition in May 2006. Image taken March 19, 2006.
Image, 2003, Trojan Nuclear Facility, near Rainier, Oregon, click to enlarge
Click image to enlarge 		Trojan Nuclear Facility, near Rainier, Oregon. Image taken February 28, 2004.
Image, 2006, Trojan Nuclear Facility, Oregon, from Kalama, Washington click to enlarge
Click image to enlarge 		Drilling holes for explosives, Trojan Nuclear Facility, Oregon, from Kalama, Washington. View from shore at Kalama Sportsman Club, Kalama, Washington. Image taken April 19, 2006.
Image, 2006, Trojan Nuclear Facility, Oregon, from Kalama, Washington click to enlarge
Click image to enlarge 		Kalama River with the Trojan Cooling Tower. View from bridge crossing the Kalama River, Kalama, Washington. Image taken April 19, 2006.


Trojan "Dome" ...
The Containment Building, which use to house the nuclear reactor, is scheduled for demolition in 2008. The nuclear reactor has been shipped to Hanford Reservation for storage.

Image, 2006, Trojan Nuclear Facility, Oregon, from Kalama, Washington click to enlarge
Click image to enlarge 		Trojan Nuclear Facility, Oregon, from Kalama, Washington. View from shore at Kalama Sportsman Club, Kalama, Washington. Image taken May 30, 2006.
Image, 2006, Trojan Nuclear Facility, Oregon, click to enlarge
Click image to enlarge 		Trojan Nuclear Facility, Oregon. View from Trojan entrance. Image taken October 31, 2006.
Image, 2007, Trojan Nuclear Facility, Oregon, click to enlarge
Click image to enlarge 		Trojan Nuclear Facility, Oregon. View from Kalama, Washington Image taken January 30, 2007.


Trojan Park ...
Trojan Park is a 75-acre park located on property at the Trojan Nuclear Power Plant. The park has a 29-acre lake where visitors can sit and fish, or sit and watch the wildlife on the lake.
[More]

Image, 2006, Trojan Nuclear Facility, Oregon, click to enlarge
Click image to enlarge 		Geese, Trojan Park at Trojan Nuclear Facility, near Rainier, Oregon. Image taken October 31, 2006.
Image, 2006, Trojan Park at the Trojan Nuclear Facility, near Rainier, Oregon, click to enlarge
Click image to enlarge 		Geese, Trojan Park at Trojan Nuclear Facility, near Rainier, Oregon. Image taken March 19, 2006.


From the Journals of Lewis and Clark ...

Clark, November 5, 1805 ...




Clark, March 27, 1806 ...



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*River Miles [RM] are approximate, in statute miles, and were determined from USGS topo maps, obtained from NOAA nautical charts, or obtained from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers website, 2003

Sources:
  • The Oregonian, December 20, 2005, March 9, 2006;
  • Portland General Electric website, 2006;


All Lewis and Clark quotations from Gary Moulton editions of the Lewis and Clark Journals, University of Nebraska Press, all attempts have been made to type the quotations exactly as in the Moulton editions, however typing errors introduced by this web author cannot be ruled out; location interpretation from variety of sources, including this website author.
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