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DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION | 12 Months Ended
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DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION [Abstract] |
DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION | NOTE 1 DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc. (the Company, which may be referred to as we, us, or our), an environmental and technology know-how company, is a Delaware corporation, engaged through its subsidiaries, in two reportable segments: TREATMENT SEGMENT, which includes:
| - | nuclear, low-level radioactive, mixed waste (containing both hazardous and low-level radioactive constituents), hazardous and non-hazardous waste treatment, processing and disposal services primarily through four uniquely licensed and permitted treatment and storage facilities; and
| - | research and development activities to identify, develop and implement innovative waste processing techniques for problematic waste streams.
SERVICES SEGMENT, which includes:
| - | On-site waste management services to commercial and government customers;
| - | Technical services, which include:
| o | professional radiological measurement and site survey of large government and commercial installations using advance methods, technology and engineering;
| o | integrated Occupational Safety and Health services including industrial hygiene ("IH") assessments; hazardous materials surveys, e.g., exposure monitoring; lead and asbestos management/abatement oversight; indoor air quality evaluations; health risk and exposure assessments; health & safety plan/program development, compliance auditing and training services; and Occupational Safety and Health Administration ("OSHA") citation assistance;
| o | global technical services providing consulting, engineering, project management, waste management, environmental, and decontamination and decommissioning field, technical, and management personnel and services to commercial and government customers; and
| o | augmented engineering services (through our Schreiber, Yonley & Associates subsidiary – "SYA") providing consulting environmental services to industrial and government customers:
| § | including air, water, and hazardous waste permitting, air, soil and water sampling, compliance reporting, emission reduction strategies, compliance auditing, and various compliance and training activities; and
| § | engineering and compliance support to other segments;
| - | Nuclear services, which include:
| o | technology-based services including engineering, decontamination and decommissioning ("D & D"), specialty services and construction, logistics, transportation, processing and disposal;
| o | remediation of nuclear licensed and federal facilities and the remediation cleanup of nuclear legacy sites. Such services capability includes: project investigation; radiological engineering; partial and total plant D & D; facility decontamination, dismantling, demolition, and planning; site restoration; site construction; logistics; transportation; and emergency response; and
| - | A company owned equipment calibration and maintenance laboratory that services, maintains, calibrates, and sources (i.e., rental) of health physics, IH and customized nuclear, environmental, and occupational safety and health ("NEOSH") instrumentation.
Our consolidated financial statements include our accounts and the accounts of our wholly-owned subsidiaries as follows: Continuing Operations: Diversified Scientific Services, Inc. ("DSSI"), East Tennessee Materials & Energy Corporation ("M&EC"), Perma-Fix of Florida, Inc. ("PFF"), Perma-Fix of Northwest Richland, Inc. ("PFNWR"), Schreiber, Yonley and Associates ("SYA"), Safety & Ecology Corporation ("SEC"), Perma-Fix Environmental Services UK Limited ("Perma-Fix UK Limited" - a United Kingdom facility) and SEC Radcon Alliance, LLC ("SECRA"). Discontinued Operations (See "Note 8"): Perma-Fix of Fort Lauderdale, Inc. ("PFFL" – divested in August 2011), Perma-Fix of South Georgia, Inc. ("PFSG" – held for sale), Perma-Fix of Orlando ("PFO" – divested in October 2011), Perma-Fix of Maryland ("PFMD" – divested in January 2008), Perma-Fix of Dayton, Inc. ("PFD" - divested in March 2008), and Perma-Fix Treatment Services, Inc. ("PFTS" – divested in May 2008). Our discontinued operations also include Perma-Fix of Michigan, Inc. ("PFMI") and Perma-Fix of Memphis, Inc. ("PFM"), two non-operational facilities.

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