Kaiser-Hill Announces Physical Completion of Rocky Flats Cleanup.

PR Newswire Europe, October, 2005

GOLDEN, Colorado, October 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Kaiser-Hill, a joint venture of CH2M HILL and Kaiser Group Holdings, Inc., has successfully completed the physical work to clean up and close Rocky Flats, per the terms of its contract with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

The Rocky Flats Site near Denver, Colorado produced plutonium and enriched uranium "triggers" for nuclear weapons from 1952 until 1989. Every nuclear weapon in the current U.S. arsenal contains triggers produced at Rocky Flats. Kaiser-Hill's cleanup effort began in 1995.

Today's announcement represents the culmination of a ten year effort to complete the largest, most complex environmental cleanup project in United States history and converts an environmental liability into a...

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