Aris Candris, who retired in March as CEO of Westinghouse, has joined the board of waste treatment technology company Kurion.
In a release Monday, Kurion announced Candris will be among four new members appointed to the board in the last two months. Candris spent more than 35 years at Westinghouse, and he also serves on the boards of NiSource, the Nuclear Energy Institute and the World Nuclear Association, in addition to civic and educational institutions.
“His decades of experience in the global commercial nuclear industry will give Kurion important insight into the distinct needs of this growing sector as we seek to expand our commercial nuclear waste management business,” Kurion founder and CEO John Raymont said in the release.
Founded in 2008, Kurion has engineered a zeolite-based Ion Specific Media that helps capture radionuclides in nuclear waste. Its technology is in use within emergency water treatment systems put in place at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan. And earlier this month the company formally opened a modular in-container vitrification system for testing at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.