Mark Duff: Look, it’s like the enterprise, my understanding, the enterprise is sitting at HII, I think the angles in Norfolk, and they are maintaining it. It has eight reactors on it. So, it’s a big job and a complex one to make it go away. So yes, it’s sitting in the harbor there or the shipyard there at Norfolk.
Ross Taylor: Nothing really wrong with that. You talked about the competitive environment. It looks like in a lot of places you are operating, you have a very limited number of competitors. And it would seem to me that one of the risks the government runs into in here is that it needs to make sure that it continues to have competitive options. So therefore, one would expect to see some spreading of business, it’s not yours. How do you see that environment? And is that not an incorrect read that given the limited number of people who can do what you are doing that, basically over time, everyone needs to win some?
Mark Duff: I should like to think that, Ross, that not only government but even the primes have that same perspective. If one company gets all the work, it’s not going to be €“ you want a competitive market. And DOE certainly understands that. I think they consider that. I don’t know how they consider in these big proposal initiatives. But I do believe that’s the case and that everyone is sensitive to the comment you just made and understands the importance of spreading it around as well. So yes, I think that’s an objective.
Ross Taylor: So, in areas where perhaps the other side, the other group one, there might be some potential tilt to the idea of keeping your consortium and your team in the game, otherwise, you risk losing the capability entirely?
Mark Duff: Yes. That’s €“ I just don’t understand how that’s going to all play out with this award because it is so large. And €“ but we certainly have a long-term mission in the Richmond area up there and a very unique capability that other folks don’t have. So I would expect, no matter what happens, I would expect to be a player on the waste treatment side of the house for the long-term with that contractor.
Ross Taylor: Yes. And just a quick comment, and obviously, you have mentioned some of the rail transport there. Obviously, everyone knows about what went on in Ohio, but I thought it was interesting. There is a lawsuit by a Native American nation against the Burlington Northern Santa Fe for an oil train derailment a number of years ago. I think it was back in 2015 that just after that trial started, Burlington Northern Santa Fe derailed another train on that nation’s property or land. So, I thought it does highlight the fact that any time you put anything on the train and haul it someplace, bad things can happen, which obviously increases the risk and the cost of the project. Otherwise, I think it sounds like from what you are saying that a lot of this €“ I noticed the tenses that you are using, a lot of the tenses you are using are not, what I might call, hopeful tenses, but expected tenses, that you see this happening.
And you see this is really like the game that €“ it’s not the game might change. It’s the game has changed and is changing. And that those pieces are already moving, the rocks are already sliding. Is that a correct read?
Mark Duff: Well, Ross, we got to be careful to as public companies to only speculate on these things. But the €“ so there is risk, obviously, we all know that going into this. But what Perma-Fix has tried to do for the last 7 years, truthfully, is to get as many big irons in the fire as we possibly can, with the hope that a couple of them we will win. And the one thing I am very confident about is the rod that came out that everyone has commented on is €“ could be viewed, to a large degree, as a commitment by DOE to ship us that waste. There is risk that plant has to get up and running and operate, but that’s a pretty big commitment they have made to commercialize through local capabilities, that secondary waste from DFLAW.
