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Rainier is a city in Columbia County, Oregon, United States. The population was 1,687 at the 2000 census.

Rainier was founded in 1851 on the south bank of the Columbia River by Charles E. Fox and was originally named Eminence. The name Rainier was taken from Mount Rainier in Washington, which can be seen from hills above the city.

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 and its suburbs starting in March of 1976. The plant had been built on the site of an Indian burial ground. This 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 imploded, collapsing in seven seconds.

Rainier is located at 46524N, 1225633W (46.089883, -122.942597)GR1.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 6.8 km (2.6 mi). 4.2 km (1.6 mi) of it is land and 2.6 km (1.0 mi) of it (38.40%) is water.