Perma-Fix Awarded Tritium Mixed Waste Treatment Contract

Perma-Fix Environmental Services yesterday was awarded a $4.5 million contract for treatment of a tritium waste stream at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The Department of Energy awarded the work as a Firm Fixed-Price task order under the Mixed Low-Level Waste (MLLW) Treatment Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract.. According to DOE, the scope of work includes “conducting a complete characterization of waste from the Flanged Tritium Waste Container waste streams and packaging and transportation of the FTWCs from LANL to an approved and authorized Treatment Storage and Disposal Facility; treatment of the FTWC waste stream at the contractor’s waste treatment facility; and shipment of the treated FTWC daughter waste streams to the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) or other appropriate TSDF for disposal.”