WA: Mystery plane briefly lands near Hanford site nuclear power plant

[Emily]

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/l...108783702.html

October 17, 2016 1:04 PM
Small plane forced to land on Hanford island

Tri-City Herald

A pilot who landed a plane on an island in the Columbia River on Monday reportedly managed to fly away before needing to be rescued, said Rae Moss with Mission Support Alliance.
Initial reports were the small plane crashed or landed on an island near the Ringold area of Franklin County about 12:30 p.m. The island is east of the Columbia Generating Station nuclear plant on the Hanford nuclear reservation.
Hanford fire officials and rescue workers were called out but later learned the pilot had taken off safely, said Moss.
It is unclear who is investigating the incident...

Doesn't sound like they are even sure this was a forced landing, rather than someone casing the area.

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/articl...fe-1067416.php

State's only nuclear plant may not be as safe from jet crash as first thought

Linda Ashton, The Associated Press
Updated 10:00 pm, Monday, October 1, 2001

... When the design specifications for the Columbia Generating Station were written in the 1970s, "there was not a plane calculation of any kind," said Laura Dovey, a spokeswoman for Energy Northwest, a public power consortium that owns the plant on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
"They did not analyze that. It seemed pretty unlikely that a plane would hit the reactor."...

http://enformable.com/2016/01/whistl...ating-station/

January 29, 2016 Whistleblowers send warning at Columbia Generating Station

Author: Enformable Nuclear News The Columbia Generating Station is home to a General Electric BWR nuclear reactor similar to the Fukushima Daiichi reactors that began construction in 1975, but after construction delays the plant was over-budget and not brought online until 1984.
The plant has been under intense economic scrutiny in the last few years, with critics asserting that the plant cannot financially compete with low energy prices in the wholesale market and boom of natural gas.
Energy Northwest was recently forced to pay a fine to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission after an official investigation found security officers inattentive and unavailable.

Vulnerable!