CH2M Hill Sees Business in Decommissioning Japan Atomic Plants

Decommissioning Japan’s nuclear plants is a business opportunity for CH2M Hill Cos., which is overseeing cleanup at the Hanford atomic weapons site in the U.S., a vice president at the engineering company said.

Japan will probably retire its reactors of similar age and design to those at the wrecked Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear station within the next decade, said Robert Kury, CH2M Hill’s vice president for nuclear liabilities decommissioning and dismantling program management. That will provide an opening for the company, which has managed nuclear decontamination projects for the U.S. and U.K. governments.