Why Did Portland General Electric Want to Build Trojan Nuclear Plant in the First Place? The mighty atom had just won WWII and was enjoying George W. Bush-right-after-9/11 levels of popularity ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Along the Columbia River, just an hour north of Portland, is the former Trojan Nuclear Power Plant. It went online in 1976 and went offline in 1992.

PGE imploded Trojan’s 499-foot-tall cooling tower in 2006. Last year, the company demolished the so-called “power block,” which had contained the plant’s control room, electricity ...

The huge structure is a monument to Oregon’s Trojan nuclear power plant (HCN, 6/14/93: Oregon’s Trojan horse: Fatally flawed nuclear power plant is shut).

Trojan closed in 1993 for financial and safety reasons, and the facility has been decommissioned in stages since then. It was Oregon’s first and only nuclear power plant.

Implosions, they’re not just for coal plants. Here’s Oregon’s Trojan Nuclear Plant going down in a pile of rubble in 2006.

RAINIER -- Every bit of uranium that powered the Trojan nuclear power plant for 16 years is still there, just outside the town of Rainier. However, the spent fuel rods are no longer sitting in ...