ISA Richland Section

As a member of one of the oldest ISA sections in the world (chartered in 1946), we hope you will take full advantage of the member benefits highlighted in this website.
The area around Richland centers around the Hanford Reach, a free-flowing section of the Columbia River—”Chiawana” (Big River)—(around 51 miles long), in eastern Washington. Upstream is Priest Rapids Dam and downstream is the McNary Dam. As early as 10,000 years ago, the ancestral inhabitants of today’s Wanapum People, Yakama Nation, Confederated Tribes of the Colville, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation, and the Nez Perce fished, hunted, and collected a variety of natural resources in the area.

In 1943, the Manhattan Project, designed to build the atomic bombs of WWII, came to Richland & built the B Reactor, the first full-scale reactor in the world, producing weapons-grade plutonium, in just 13 months. Plutonium from the B Reactor was used in the world’s first nuclear explosion, July 16, 1945, at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range in New Mexico. B Reactor plutonium was used in the “Fat Man” bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945. 

We are an open society inviting all whom are involved in the automation industry, in any capacity, to be part. If you are connected to the automation field as a technician, engineer, educator, etc. you are welcome to attend any of the events and functions including the networking sessions. Should you decide to become an ISA member, the full benefit package will be available to you.

The ISA Richland Section is dedicated to inspiring and engaging the community to achieve full accomplishment of corporate and personal goals as we work in this automation industry. With many annual events, you will have plenty of great opportunities to meet others of like-minded professional interests.

Since there are only two sections in the State of Washington; Seattle on the west side of the Cascade Mountains and Richland on the east side.