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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- EnergySolutions Inc. will get a share of $6 billion in federal stimulus funds earmarked to clean up low-level radioactive waste.
The Salt Lake City-based company is specifically named in more than half of the project proposals for the Energy Department's stimulus money.
The projects that specifically mention the Utah company include large government cleanups of the nation's nuclear-weapons complex in Hanford, Wash.; Oak Ridge, Tenn.; and Savannah River, S.C.
Company CEO Steve Creamer recently told investors that the disposal firm campaigned to be included.
Waste from the projects would be disposed of in Utah.
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Information from: The Salt Lake Tribune
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