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EnergySolutions Wins U.S. Department of Energy $19.2M Remediation Contract
| Source: EnergySolutions
SALT LAKE CITY, UT--(Marketwire - June 23, 2009) - EnergySolutions, Inc. (NYSE : ES )
announced today it has been awarded a $19.2 million contract from the URS
Corporation to cleanup the U.S. Department of Energy Separation Process
Research Unit (SPRU) test facility in upstate New York.
EnergySolutions is teaming with the URS Corporation to perform the work at
the facility in Schenectady, New York. The scope of work includes
characterization, packaging, loading, transporting (rail), treatment and
disposal of soil, debris and mixed waste.
"We appreciate the confidence the U.S. Department of Energy and URS has in
EnergySolutions to perform remediation at the SPRU test facility," said
Steve Creamer, CEO and Chairman of EnergySolutions. "We look forward to
working with URS's Washington Division to ensure this site is safely and
efficiently cleaned up."
Timeframe for the project is estimated at 24 months and will begin
immediately.
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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