In Washington state, Amazon has signed an agreement to pay for the initial feasibility phase to develop a small modular reactor project near the Northwest’s only commercial nuclear power plant, the Columbia Generating Station. The plant is 10 miles north of Richland on unused Hanford nuclear site land leased from the federal government.

Amazon has a deal with Energy Northwest to fund the initial feasibility phase of a nuclear facility in central Washington, with the right to purchase electricity from the 320 megawatt plant.