Decommissioning expert Robert Kury is off the job at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant decontamination and decommissioning project, according to an internal memo from the Energy Department’s prime cleanup contractor at the Piketon, Ohio, site.
Kury “has left the Project to attend to personal matters,” Dennis Carr, Portsmouth site director for Fluor-BWXT, wrote in a memo dated Jan. 30. Kury, who is well-traveled throughout DOE’s nuclear complex, was part of the team CH2M sent to Portsmouth when the company joined the Fluor-led uranium-enrichment cleanup last year as a subcontractor.
Kury was most recently CH2M’s vice president for nuclear liabilities decommissioning and dismantling program management. It was not immediately clear whether he was still employed at CH2M. A spokesperson for the Denver-based parent company had no immediate comment Monday.