Perma-Fix is a nuclear services company and leading provider of nuclear waste management services with over 30 years of
experience working on some of the most challenging projects in the world. Learn more about how we're uniquely suited to serve you:
Capabilities
We are a nuclear services company and a leading provider of nuclear waste management services. Our nuclear services group provides various project management, waste management, environmental restoration, operational services, radiological protection, safety and industrial hygiene capabilities to our clients. We operate four fixed based nuclear waste treatment facilities which have the most comprehensive radioactive and mixed waste services nationwide.
WASTE SERVICES
Waste Treatment
State of the Art Facilities
Our waste treatment facilities develop treatment protocols for problematic waste streams, as well as provide the management and treatment of industrial, radioactive and mixed waste for government, commercial, medical and institutional organizations across North America, Canada, and the European Union.
We provide total waste management services for commercial and government agencies throughout the entire waste life-cycle. We have been managing and treating waste for disposal since 1991, and with our network of three fully licensed and permitted radioactive and hazardous waste processing facilities, we are well versed in all phases of waste management. We plan treatment campaigns based on the designated disposal cell waste acceptance criteria and land disposal requirements, and based on our vast experience of managing wastes destined for all major federal and commercial radioactive disposal cells in the U.S. and Canada.
Protocol Development
Complex Waste Problems
We have a long standing reputation for developing unique treatment capabilities for the most difficult and complex waste streams. Years of treatment experience coupled with sound engineering practices, intimate knowledge of RCRA & TSCA regulations and on-site fabrication expertise has allowed us great success in treating a myriad of previously orphaned waste streams.
NUCLEAR SERVICES
Characterization
Innovative Rapid Survey Technologies
As one of the largest turnkey radiological support services contractors in the U.S., we offer advanced technologies supporting radiological and hazardous facilities for site characterization, innovative rapid survey technologies, Multi-Agency Radiation Survey and Site Investigation Manual (MARSSIM) compliance, and Final Status Surveys (FSS).
Remediation
A Comprehensive and Turn-key Solution
Clients rely on our industry experts for their ability to manage complex projects dealing with hazardous and radiological contaminants while ensuring regulatory and safety compliance.
Decommissioning
Broad Experience Across Markets
Our project experience covers the full spectrum of radiological hazard environments from nuclear reactor containment vessels to radiologically contaminated structures and surrounding environments. We have experience performing these services under a wide variety of conditions, such as in ecologically sensitive areas, unstable structures in close proximity to historically significant structures, highly congested areas, and within occupied buildings.
Health Physics Services
Health Physics Support
Quality, Professional, Safe
We are an industry leader in providing Radiological Safety and Protection, Health Physics Support, and Health Physics Services aimed at providing clients with best practices for the protection of people and the environment from radiological hazards.
Instrumentation
Calibration, Rental, and Repair
We provide rental, calibration and repair services for radiological and industrial hygiene
instrumentation and possess one of the country's largest commercial instrument inventories.
Located in Knoxville, Tennessee, our lab's Quality Management System is ISO 9001 certified,
ensuring quality service and products.
We have extensive NORM/TENORM experience in several states throughout the U.S including oil and gas exploration and production facilities and mineral mines. We routinely provide human health risk assessments, independent reviews, and evaluation of remediation options.
We have provided ongoing, reliable engineering support to a wide range of industries including government, waste management companies, commercial facilities, universities, and more. We have the experience and knowledge to apply our core expertise to solve the environmental issues our clients are facing today, and to enhance their ongoing environmental operations.
Consulting
Decades of Experience
Our services team can help you in a variety of areas including program development, information systems, EVMS, procurement, training, and more. We leverage our waste services and our project experience to help customers find new solutions to their ongoing challenges.
Project Management
ISO 9001 Certified Management System
We have a model for managing projects, measuring value, and ensuring cost control
during all aspects of a project. Our project management methodology has a track record
of success and our Quality Management System is ISO 9001:2015 certified.
INNOVATION
Technology Development
Innovation for the Future
We have a fully functioning radiological and mixed waste analytical chemistry laboratory which conducts treatability studies to enhance or develop treatment processes for unique or complex mixed waste streams. Since the laboratory is located within a licensed and permitted operating waste treatment facility personnel are available for consulting on scale-up issues that may be addressed during bench testing.
We built a customized conveyor-based radiological
assay system designed to provide 100% characterization of material efficiently and with industry-leading
measurement quality. It includes a network based software platform that can be monitored and controled
from multiple areas on the project site.
Therma-Fix Gen3 is the culmination of 25 years of technological advancements, desorption-specific
waste processing experience and regulatory knowledge. The electrically heated batch oven system has an operating
range of up to 1200°F under a 29" Hg vacuum and uses a tray system to permit discreet segregation of customer waste.
We repair, calibrate, and rent radiological and industrial hygiene instrumentation, and have one of the country's largest commercial instrument inventories.
Our team provides turn-key services for NORM management, specializing in tailoring
solutions for difficult waste streams and strategic support which range from regulatory compliance
consulting to turn-key NORM program management design and implementation.
Our experience enables us to deliver a quality solution, every time.
We are a global provider and industry leader in providing safe, compliant, and environmentally responsible radiation protection/decommissioning health physics (HP) services and solutions. Our experienced HP staff, including six certified health physicists (CHP) provide clients with best practices for the protection of people and the environment from radiological hazards including naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM). Along with the largest HP instrumentation laboratory in the county, our HP staff have provided management and consulting to various industrial, utility, and government clients for more than 18 years.
We have a solid reputation of successfully completing complex nuclear and waste management projects. Our knowledge and experience of operating our own large waste treatment facilities together with the experience in the areas of project management and Health Physics Services, has allowed Perma-Fix to expand into a global nuclear services company.
Perma-Fix Nuclear Services' Quality Management System is ISO 9001:2015 certified. This means they have implemented quality management systems
that meet the requirements set by the International
Organization for Standardization. Being ISO 9001 certified indicates that the company consistently strives to deliver quality services
and to improve upon those services.
NQA-1 Compliant
All Perma-Fix services are compliant with the standards set by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers(ASME) in their Nuclear Quality Assurance
program. NQA-1 emphasizes the importance of each individual's role in our operations, and by applying these standards,
we can efficiently manage the processing and disposition of any radioactive materials.