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EnergySolutions Moab Project Receives American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Funding of Nearly $23 Million
| Source: EnergySolutions
SALT LAKE CITY, UT--(Marketwire - October 5, 2009) - EnergySolutions, Inc. (NYSE : ES )
announced today that $22.9 million of American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act funding has been allocated to the Moab UMTRA project. The total amount
of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding for the Moab project is
$104.9 million. The funding is being used to accelerate removal of uranium
mill tailings away from the banks of the Colorado River. Thus far 160 jobs
have been created this year as a result of Recovery Act funding.
"We are thrilled that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has allocated
sufficient funding to the Moab project to accelerate the cleanup of the
site. This is great news for the community and for all who use the
Colorado River and Lake Powell," said Steve Creamer, CEO and Chairman of
EnergySolutions.
The Recovery Act funding is being used to excavate, transport and dispose
of additional mill tailings from the Moab site to the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission-approved disposal cell at Crescent Junction. This additional
work began in June and will continue through January 2011. Additionally,
this additional funding supports increasing the size of the disposal cell
as well as crushing, transporting, and placing final rock cover on the
disposal cell. This portion of the work began in August and continues
through September 2011.
Sixteen million tons of uranium mill tailings will eventually be relocated
30 miles north of Moab to a location designated by the DOE.
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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