From Deseret News archives:
Envirocare adds nuclear waste firm
Merger fuels talk of even reprocessing spent rods
If reprocessing technology is developed, as company president Steve Creamer believes it will be, it will make the need for high-level waste storage facilities like the proposed Private Fuel Storage site in Utah unnecessary.
That may be far in the future. Meanwhile, the new entity, EnergySolutions, which is based in Salt Lake City, is continuing many cleanup and waste management projects.
The Times of London reported in its Friday online edition that the purchase price for the British company BNG America was $90 million.
The new corporation, of which the former BNG America will be one part, is called EnergySolutions. Also making up EnergySolutions are the Envirocare and Scientech D&D Division, which Envirocare acquired in October 2005.
EnergySolutions, to be headquartered in Salt Lake City, is owned by a private equity group led by Lindsay, Goldberg & Bessemer, Peterson Partners and Creamer Investments, a press release from the new company says.
BNG is involved in a Department of Energy project to test technologies for reprocessing or recycling of spent nuclear fuel, based at the DOE site at Savannah River, S.C.
In the release, Creamer is quoted as saying, "EnergySolutions looks forward to working with the government and industry to help provide the technology and expertise to help make recycling of spent fuel a reality in the United States."
Currently, federal law calls for disposal of highly radioactive fuel rods at the stalled Yucca Mountain, Nev., repository. The proposed PFS facility in Skull Valley, Tooele County, has been seen as a temporary storage solution. But if fuel rod reprocessing is developed, that could obviate the need for either plant.
As a national company, the 1,000-plus employees of EnergySolutions will work in 14 states. Utah would be the headquarters, not a site for reprocessing waste or for working on decommissioning old nuclear facilities.
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