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Carol A. Johnson – President and Project Manager

Carol A. Johnson became president of Washington Closure Hanford and project manager of Hanford’s River Corridor Closure Project in July 2011. She is responsible for leading cleanup of the $2.3 billion, 10-year project – the largest environmental cleanup closure project in the nation.

Johnson has been with Washington Closure since November 2010, serving as the Closure Director.  Before joining Washington Closure, she was the Infrastructure Executive Director at the URS-led Sellafield project in the United Kingdom where she was responsible for critical nuclear safety-related infrastructure and support services, commercial fuel transport and nuclear materials safeguards and security.  She managed more than 1,900 employees and an annual budget of about $500 million in a highly regulated environment operated under a nuclear license and overseen by the Nuclear Installation Inspectorate.

She is a graduate of Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and has more than 30 years experience in the nuclear industry. In addition to work in Sellafield, she has held technical and managerial assignments at the Savanna River Site in South Carolina; the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and the Idaho National Laboratory.

Washington Closure is a limited liability company owned by URS, Bechtel National and CH2M Hill. The company manages the River Corridor Closure Project for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Richland Operations Office. Washington Closure is responsible for demolishing 329 contaminated buildings, cleaning up 555 waste sites, placing two former plutonium production reactors and one nuclear facility in interim safe storage and managing the Hanford Site’s cleanup landfill, the Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility.