Duratek President & CEO Robert Prince to Speak at the Sidoti Conferenc

    Business Editors

    COLUMBIA, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 6, 2005--Duratek, Inc. (NASDAQ:DRTK) announced today that Robert Prince, Duratek's President and CEO, will present to investors at the Sidoti & Company, LLC, Ninth Annual New York Emerging Growth Institutional Investor Forum on April 6, 2005, at 11:35 a.m. Eastern Time. The Conference is being held at the Grand Hyatt in New York City. The Company's presentation is posted on its website at www.duratekinc.com.

    Duratek provides safe, secure radioactive materials disposition.

    Certain statements contained in this press release may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 21E(i)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause Duratek's actual results to be materially different from any future results expressed or implied by these statements. Such factors include the following: the Company's ability to manage its commercial waste processing operations, including obtaining commercial waste processing contracts and processing waste under such contracts in a timely and cost-effective manner; the timing and award of contracts by the U.S. Department of Energy for the cleanup of waste sites administered by it; the acceptance and implementation of the Company's waste treatment technologies in the government and commercial sectors; and other large technical support services projects. All forward-looking statements are also expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements included in the Company's SEC filings, including its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and its annual report on Form 10-K.

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CONTACT: Duratek, Inc. Diane R. Brown, 410-312-5100 Robert F. Shawver, 410-312-5100 www.duratekinc.com

KEYWORD: MARYLAND DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SOURCE: Duratek, Inc.

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