GTS Duratek Announces Services Subcontract With Bechtel Jacobs.

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COLUMBIA, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 9, 2000

GTS Duratek, Inc. (Nasdaq:DRTK) announced today that it has received a services subcontract for Bechtel Jacobs Company LLC to provide low level waste treatment off-site.

GTS Duratek will provide packaging, transportation and waste processing. The subcontract has a three year base period with two one-year options. The subcontract scope is indefinite quantity and the subcontract value is a five year not exceed $21 million.

Robert E. Prince, President and CEO said, "Winning this contract with Bechtel Jacobs in support of its U.S. Department of Energy contract at the Oak Ridge Reservation is an important step for the Company. The Department of Energy is expecting to release approximately $40 billion in contracts over the next few years."

GTS Duratek implements technologies and provides services which protect people from radiation and the environment from radioactive wastes.

GTS Duratek has included in its periodic filings under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including its Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 1999, pursuant to the "safe harbor" provisions contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, certain cautionary statements which are intended to identify certain important factors that could cause GTS Duratek's actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking statements of GTS Duratek made by or on behalf of GTS Duratek.

Reference is made to such statements for a complete discussion of those factors.