Inside Washington's Columbia Nuclear Plant (Video)

Inside Washington's Columbia Nuclear Plant (Video)

by Nuclear Street News Team

Relicensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission earlier this year, the reactor at the Columbia Generating Station provides electricity for the equivalent of 1 million homes.

Energy Northwest – the plant's operator made up of about two dozen publicly owned utilities in Washington state – recently produced this video with a range of footage taken inside the plant.

(Please visit the site to view this video)

Highlights from the general overview of the General Electric Type 5 boiling water reactor include:

-- Fuel assembly composition
-- Footage of the control room
-- A condenser module, pre-installation
-- The plant's canals and cooling towers
-- Refueling
-- The 27 dry casks for spent fuel storage on site.