Perma-Fix Begins Treatment Plan For Radioactively-Tainted Mercury Waste

Date: June 5, 2003

Source: News Room

Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc. (Nasdaq: PESI) has announced that it and a technology partner, ADA Technologies, Inc., have successfully completed development of a new treatment process and have begun to treat radioactively contaminated waste containing high levels of mercury in excess of 260 ppm at Perma-Fix's facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn. Perma-Fix has a backlog of approximately $3.6 million of this waste that it can now begin to treat. Since the early 1950s, mercury has been widely used throughout the Department of Energy for activities associated with the production of weapons and there now exists an estimated 50,000 cubic meters of low-level radioactive and transuranic waste co-contaminated with mercury.
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