Johnson named Closure Director for Hanford cleanup contractor

RICHLAND, Wash.—Carol A. Johnson has been appointed Closure Director for Washington Closure Hanford. As Closure Director, she will be responsible for integrating the company’s strategy and activities to close out and transfer land back to the federal government that has been entrusted to Washington Closure for cleanup.

Johnson has over 30 years of experience in the nuclear industry.  She has held technical and managerial assignments at Savannah River, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory.  She transferred to Washington Closure Hanford from a four-year assignment at the Sellafield site in the United Kingdom. At Sellafield, she served as the Executive Director of Infrastructure, responsible for more than 1,900 staff and a $350 million annual budget.

Washington Closure manages the nation’s largest environmental cleanup closure project for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Richland Operations Office at the 586-square-mile Hanford Site in south-central Washington state.

The company is responsible for demolishing 486 contaminated buildings, cleaning up 396 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.

Washington Closure is a limited liability company owned by URS, Bechtel National and CH2M Hill.

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