Amazon offers $334M for nuclear reactors to be built at Hanford

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The latest attempt to put Washington at the center of nuclear power development is happening at the site of the state’s last effort, which mostly failed almost 40 years ago. And one of the state’s biggest users of electric power will have a hand in its development.

“We’re building in the shadow of an unfinished reactor. It’ll be constantly on our minds,” said Gregory Cullen, vice president for energy services and development at Energy Northwest.

The site is Energy Northwest’s half-built reactor No. 1, near the Columbia Generating Station reactor north of Richland. In 1982, the Washington Public Power Supply System — a consortium of 28 public utilities including Seattle City Light — halted construction of four nuclear reactors at Hanford and Satsop because of massive cost overruns. That led to the second-biggest bond bankruptcy in U.S. history.

Only Reactor No. 2 was completed. In 1998, WPPSS changed its name to Energy Northwest and Reactor No. 2 became the 1,000-megawatt Columbia Generating Stanton in a massive rebranding to leave bankruptcy in the past.

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