Jeremy L. Dillon
RW Monitor
9/19/2014
EnergySolutions is shaking up its corporate management of the Zion nuclear power plant decommissioning project, RW Monitor has learned, though the exact reason for the change remains unclear. Alan Parker, Chief Operating Officer of EnergySolutions’ Division of Projects and Products, will no longer have responsibility for the Zion project. While the project will remain within the company’s Division of Project and Productions, responsibility will shift to John Christian, co-president of EnergySolutions’ Logistics, Processing and Disposal Division, according to officials familiar with the change. EnergySolutions declined to comment on the management shift this week.
EnergySolutions assumed responsibility for the Zion decommissioning project in 2010 from plant operator Exelon. The project is expected to be completed in 2018, two years earlier than previously estimated. Currently, the project is in the middle of the spent fuel transfer to dry cask storage phase of the cleanup. Once that step is completed, the project basically turns into a simpler ‘rip and ship’ project, officials have said.
