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New deputy for River Corridor Closure Project

10.07.2008

Washington Closure Hanford has appointed Ryan A. Dodd as deputy project manager for the River Corridor Closure Project.

He comes to Washington Closure from CH2M Hill Hanford Group where he was vice president of retrieval and closure operations and responsible for managing over 30 million gallons of hazardous and radioactive waste stored in 149 single-shell tanks at the Hanford Site.

A Richland native, he worked as a chemical technician at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory during high school and college.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Washington State University in 1988. In 2001, he completed the Executive Program at the Darden Business School at the University of Virginia.

After graduating from WSU, he began work as a process engineer for Westinghouse Hanford Company. He continued his employment at Hanford as an engineer, engineering manager, operations manager and program manager until being named vice president of retrieval and closure operations for CH2M Hill in 2003.

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

Washington Closure manages the River Corridor Closure Project for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Richland Operations Office at the 586-square-mile Hanford Site in southeastern Washington state.

It is responsible for cleaning up 370 contaminated waste sites, demolishing 486 buildings and operating the Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility. Washington Closure expects to finish cleanup work on the $2.2 billion project by 2015.