Editing Richland, Washington (section)

===After the production boom===
[[File:Richlandcityhall.JPG|thumb|right|The former Richland City Hall, which has now been demolished]]
With the shutdown of the last production reactor in 1987, the area transitioned to environmental cleanup and technology. Now, many Richland residents are employed at the Hanford site in its environmental cleanup mission.{{citation needed|date=February 2024}}

[[Richland High School (Washington)|Richland High School]]'s sports teams are called the Bombers, complete with a [[mushroom cloud]] logo. Some of the streets platted after 1958 are named after [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] [[General officer|generals]] (such as [[George S. Patton|Patton]] Street, [[Douglas MacArthur|MacArthur]] Street, [[General Sherman|Sherman]] Street, and [[General Pershing|Pershing]] Avenue) and after various nuclear themes ([[Albert Einstein|Einstein]] Avenue, [[Curie (unit)|Curie]] Street, [[Proton]] Lane, [[Logarithm|Log]] Lane, and Nuclear Lane). A local museum, the [[Reach Museum]], 
tells the story of the cultural, natural, and scientific history of the [[Hanford Reach]] and [[Columbia River Drainage Basin|Columbia Basin]] area; it replaced the
now closed [[Columbia River Exhibition of History, Science, and Technology|Columbia River Exhibition of History, Science, and Technology (CREHST)]] in 2014.
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[[Washington State University, Tri-Cities]] was founded in northern Richland in 1989, growing out of a former Joint Graduate Center which had been affiliated with the [[University of Washington]], [[Oregon State University]], and [[Washington State University]]. Richland is also home to [[List of hospitals in Washington (state)|Kadlec Regional Medical Center]]. [[Columbia Basin College]]'s Medical Training Center is near Kadlec Regional Medical Center.{{citation needed|date=February 2024}}