Editing Rainier, Oregon (section)

==History==
[[File:Trojan_implosion.gif|thumb|left|Implosion of Trojan Nuclear plant cooling tower in 2006]]
Rainier was founded in 1851 on the south bank of the [[Columbia River]] by Charles E. Fox, the town's first postman. First called Eminence, its name was later changed to Fox's Landing and finally to Rainier. The name Rainier was taken from [[Mount Rainier]] in [[Washington (state)|Washington]], which can be seen from hills above the city.  Rainier was incorporated in 1881.<ref name="Lewis and Clark's Columbia River">{{cite web |title=Lewis and Clark's Columbia River|url=http://www.columbiariverimages.com/Regions/Places/rainier_oregon.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091002153203/http://www.columbiariverimages.com/Regions/Places/rainier_oregon.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=October 2, 2009| date=November 2008|publisher=ColumbiaRiverImages.com}}</ref>

For much of the last quarter of the twentieth century, Rainier was known to the rest of [[Oregon]] as home to [[Trojan Nuclear Power Plant]], the only commercial [[nuclear reactor]] in the state, which supplied [[electricity]] to [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]] and its suburbs starting in March 1976.  The reactor was closed periodically due to structural problems, and in January 1993, it was decommissioned after cracks developed in the steam tubes. On May 21, 2006, the cooling tower was demolished.

The closing of the Trojan plant precipitated a decline in the number of businesses in the city.  While some retail and services are available in the city, currently the only supermarket in the city is a Grocery Outlet.  Services are available in neighboring [[Clatskanie, Oregon|Clatskanie]], [[St. Helens, Oregon|St. Helens]], and in [[Longview, Washington]]. Longview is opposite Rainier, across the Columbia River, and connected to Rainier by the Lewis and Clark Bridge.