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EnergySolutions Awarded Waste Remediation Contract at Los Alamos, New Mexico
Contracts Valued at $16 Million
| Source: EnergySolutions
SALT LAKE CITY, UT--(Marketwire - August 11, 2009) - EnergySolutions, Inc. (NYSE : ES )
announced today it has been awarded waste remediation contracts for the
management of transuarnic waste from the U.S. Department of Energy's Los
Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The contracts are valued at $16 million
and will involve retrieval, packaging, and disposition of transuranic
waste.
"EnergySolutions has worked closely with Los Alamos on many projects and
appreciates the confidence the DOE has in EnergySolutions to manage this
waste for final disposition," said Steve Creamer, CEO and Chairman of
EnergySolutions.
Since 2005 EnergySolutions has been working with LANL to repackage
transuranic legacy waste to meet the requirements for disposal at the Waste
Isolation Pilot Plant located in Carlsbad, New Mexico. Under the newly
awarded contracts, EnergySolutions will continue its operations in existing
facilities as well as develop and operate two new transuranic debris
processing lines through 2010.
EnergySolutions offers customers a full range of integrated services and
solutions, including nuclear operations, characterization, decommissioning,
decontamination, site closure, transportation, nuclear materials
management, processing, recycling, and disposition of nuclear waste, and
research and engineering services across the nuclear fuel cycle.
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