EnergySolutions Awarded Hanford Waste Treatment Plant Testing Support Contract

SALT LAKE CITY, UT--(Marketwire - July 28, 2009) - EnergySolutions, Inc. (NYSE: ES) announced today the award of two sub-contracts at the Hanford Site Waste Treatment Plant for the support of waste mix testing. Together these contracts are valued at greater than $15 Million.

"We are delighted that we can provide engineering, testing and project management services as a subcontractor at the Waste Treatment Plant," said Steve Creamer, CEO and Chairman of EnergySolutions.

The initial cost plus fixed fee base in phase 1 is for the design and fabrication of the M3 PJM Mix Test Stand which consists of a series of skid mounted valves, pumps, regulators and specialized acrylic vessels designed to demonstrate that simulated waste mixing properties can be achieved.

Phases 2 and 3 include waste simulant physical properties testing and scaled hydraulic flume testing in collaboration with Washington State University. EnergySolutions will begin work immediately and complete the project in December of 2009.

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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