EnergySolutions to Manage Waste Generated at Idaho National Laboratory

SALT LAKE CITY, UT--(Marketwire - July 15, 2009) - EnergySolutions, Inc. (NYSE: ES) announced today it has been awarded a contract from Battelle Energy Alliance (BEA) to manage waste produced by BEA's laboratory operations at the Idaho National Laboratory site. BEA is the Management and Operations contractor at the Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory.

"We appreciate the confidence Battelle Energy Alliance has in EnergySolutions to perform waste services at the BEA laboratory facilities," said Steve Creamer, CEO and Chairman of EnergySolutions. "We look forward to working with Battelle Energy Alliance to ensure the waste is safely and efficiently managed."

EnergySolutions will provide these services at several BEA managed facilities at the U.S. Department of Energy site in Idaho Falls, Idaho. The scope of work includes characterization, loading, treatment disposal and oversight of packaging and transportation of radioactive, hazardous, industrial and mixed waste.

The contract term is five years with an estimated value of $19 million. Work under the contract will begin this summer.

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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