
                                                                    Exhibit 99.1

                     Perma-Fix Completes Private Placement

    ATLANTA, March 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Perma-Fix Environmental
Services, Inc. (Nasdaq: PESI; BSE) (Germany: PES.BE) today announced that it
completed a private placement of its common stock and warrants to purchase its
common stock, and that it received a total of $10.4 million in the private
placement offering.  The private placement was sold to fifteen accredited
investors.  The net proceeds of $9.9 million, after paying placement agent
fees, are to be used in connection with the proposed acquisition, as announced
on March 4, 2004, and to repay certain debt, and for working capital.

    Perma-Fix issued, in connection with the private placement approximately
4.6 million shares of common stock at $2.25 a share and warrants to purchase
up to an additional 1.2 million shares of common stock.  The warrants have an
exercise price of $2.92 per share and have a term of three years.

    The common stock and warrants issued in the private placement have not
been registered under the Securities Act of 1933 as amended (the "Act"), and
may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or
pursuant to an exemption from registration.  Perma-Fix has agreed to register
the shares of common stock issued in the private placement and to be issued
upon exercise of the warrants under the Act covering the resale of these
shares.

    Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc. is a national environmental
services company, providing mixed waste and industrial waste management
services.  The industrial segment provides hazardous and non-hazardous waste
treatment services for a diverse group of customers including Fortune 500
companies, numerous federal, state and local agencies and thousands of smaller
clients.  The nuclear segment provides radioactive and mixed waste treatment
services to hospitals, research laboratories and institutions, numerous
federal agencies including the Departments of Energy and Defense and nuclear
utilities.  The Company operates nine major waste treatment facilities across
the country.

    Please visit us on the World Wide Web at http://www.perma-fix.com.

SOURCE  Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc.
    -0-                             03/23/2004
    /CONTACT:  Dr. Louis F. Centofanti, Chairman and CEO, Perma-Fix
Environmental Services, Inc., +1-404-847-9990; or David Waldman,
dwaldman@lhai.com, or John Heilshorn, both of Lippert-Heilshorn & Associates,
+1-212-838-3777; or Herbert Strauss, European investor relations,
+011-43-316-296-316, or herbert@eu-ir.com, all for Perma-Fix Environmental
Services/
    /Web site:  http://www.perma-fix.com/
    (PESI)

CO:  Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc.
ST:  Georgia
IN:  ENV
SU:  FNC

