Kurion Announces Fukushima Tritium Removal Demonstration Contract

Kurion received a contract worth approximately $10 million from Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) to demonstrate its tritium-removal technology as a possible remedy at Fukushima, the company officially announced yesterday. Kurion first previewed its contract with METI back in September when Kurion President John Raymont spoke at the RadWaste Summit in Summerlin, Nev. METI selected Kurion from among a field of 182 submissions to help fight the growing tritium contamination of water at the Fukushima-Daiichi site. Submissions for the tritium-removal project required the ability to treat 800,000 tons of tritiated water, Kurion said. “We recognize the urgency of the situation as water accumulates at the Fukushima site,” Raymont said in a statement. “While the specified completion date for the project is March 2016, it is our goal to accelerate the demonstration project and provide the necessary data by the end of 2015 to enable the METI, TEPCO and the Japanese people to make an informed decision about the tritium contamination at Fukushima.”