IRVINE, Calif. - Wednesday, January 2nd 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Kurion, Inc., an innovator in nuclear waste management, announced that recent advances with its Modular Vitrification System(MVS®), GeoMelt® vitrification and Ion Specific Media technologies, necessitated an expansion of its leadership team effective today in order to pursue several large domestic and international opportunities. As a result, Ralph DiSibio, chairman of the board, will assume expanded duties as Executive Chairman/CEO and former President/CEO John Raymont will assume the role as Vice-Chairman and President, International Operations/M&A Initiatives.

Raymont, who founded the company in 2008 with support from Lux Capital, will primarily direct his attention to Japan, where Kurion’s revolutionary cesium removal systemled efforts to improve safety at the March 2011 tsunami-damaged Fukushima plant. "The nuclear cleanup challenges at the plant and surrounding Fukushima Prefect ... Read more »