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13 May 08
Energy NetSteve Creamer wants to talk about saving the world. The CEO of EnergySolutions, a nuclear power cleanup and disposal company, says it's his personal mission to help usher in the "nuclear renaissance," an era he says is coming on the heels of the carbon emission dark ages. Creamer has spent the past three years amassing a near monopoly on low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) management in the U.S.
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12 May 08
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Creamer has spent the past three years amassing a near monopoly on low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) management in the U.S. His company now handles 99% of such waste, which includes contaminated clothing, equipment residue from reactor water and other materials.
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After acquiring eight companies and putting them under the Utah-based EnergySolutions umbrella, Creamer took the company public last November.
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Revenues for 2007 were just over $1 billion, but are expected to climb this year.
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EnergySolutions spent more than $1 million on lobbying in 2007 and its political action committees have donated more than $145,000 to House and Senate campaigns since 2005.
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EnergySolutions is not the first company to ask permission to bring waste into the U.S. In the past ten years, LLRW shipments have come in from Canada, Ukraine and Germany. The Italian shipment, however, would be several times larger than any that have come in before.
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He stresses that cleaning up after nuclear power is the responsibility not just of individual countries, but the global community as a whole. He points to global warming. "If we burn up, it's not just going to be America that burns up — it's going to be the whole world that burns up, " he says.
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