| Operating Segments | 
 12. Operating Segments 
  
In accordance with ASC 280, “Segment
Reporting”, the Company defines an operating segment as a business activity: (1) from which we may earn revenue and incur
expenses; (2) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the chief operating decision maker (“CODM”) to make
decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance; and (3) for which discrete financial information
is available. 
  
Our reporting segments are defined as below: 
  
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 three uniquely licensed and permitted treatment and storage facilities; and  | 
 
    |   | 
    - | 
    Research & Development (“R&D”) activities to identify, develop and implement innovative waste processing techniques for problematic waste streams. | 
 
 
  
SERVICES SEGMENT, which includes: 
  
    |   | 
    - | 
    Technical services, which include: | 
 
 
  
    |   | 
    ○ | 
    professional radiological measurement and site survey of large government and commercial installations using advanced methods, technology and engineering; | 
 
    |   | 
    ○ | 
    integrated Occupational Safety and Health services including 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 OSHA citation assistance; | 
 
    |   | 
    ○ | 
    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 | 
 
    |   | 
    ○ | 
    on-site waste management services to commercial and governmental customers. | 
 
 
  
    |   | 
    - | 
    Nuclear services, which include: | 
 
 
  
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    ○ | 
    technology-based services including engineering, decontamination and decommissioning (“D&D”), specialty services and construction, logistics, transportation, processing and disposal; | 
 
    |   | 
    ○ | 
    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; logistics; transportation; and emergency response; and | 
 
 
  
    |   | 
    - | 
    A company owned equipment calibration and maintenance laboratory that services, maintains, calibrates, and sources (i.e., rental) health physics, IH and customized NIOSH instrumentation. | 
 
    |   | 
    - | 
    A company owned gamma spectroscopy laboratory for the analysis of oil and gas industry solids and liquids. | 
 
 
  
MEDICAL SEGMENT, which includes: R&D of
the Company’s medical isotope production technology by our majority-owned Polish subsidiary, Perma-Fix of Medical or the
Medical Segment. The Medical Segment has not generated any revenues and all costs incurred are reflected within R&D in the
accompanying consolidated financial statements. As previously disclosed, the Medical Segment has substantially reduced its R&D
costs and activities due to the need for capital to fund these activities. The Company anticipates that the Medical Segment will
not resume full R&D activities until the necessary capital is obtained through its own credit facility or additional equity
raise, or obtains partners willing to provide funding for its R&D. 
  
Our reporting segments exclude our corporate
headquarters and our discontinued operations (see “Note 11 – Discontinued Operations”) which do not generate
revenues. 
  
The table below presents certain financial
information of our operating segments for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019 (in thousands): 
  
Segment Reporting for the Quarter Ended March 31, 2020 
  
    |   | 
      | 
    Treatment | 
      | 
      | 
    Services | 
      | 
      | 
    Medical | 
      | 
      | 
    Segments Total | 
      | 
      | 
    Corporate(1) | 
      | 
      | 
    Consolidated Total | 
      | 
 
    | Revenue from external customers | 
      | 
    $ | 
    9,563 | 
      | 
      | 
    $ | 
    15,297 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
    $ | 
    24,860 | 
      | 
      | 
    $ | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
    $ | 
    24,860 | 
      | 
 
    | Intercompany revenues | 
      | 
      | 
    207 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    8 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    215 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
 
    | Gross profit | 
      | 
      | 
    2,745 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    1,895 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    4,640 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    4,640 | 
      | 
 
    | Research and development | 
      | 
      | 
    94 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    66 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    66 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    226 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    6 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    232 | 
      | 
 
    | Interest income | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    56 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    56 | 
      | 
 
    | Interest expense | 
      | 
      | 
    (18 | 
    ) | 
      | 
      | 
    (6 | 
    ) | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    (24 | 
    ) | 
      | 
      | 
    (96 | 
    ) | 
      | 
      | 
    (120 | 
    ) | 
 
    | Interest expense-financing fees | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    (68 | 
    ) | 
      | 
      | 
    (68 | 
    ) | 
 
    | Depreciation and amortization | 
      | 
      | 
    264 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    77 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    341 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    5 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    346 | 
      | 
 
    | Segment income (loss) before income taxes | 
      | 
      | 
    1,547 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    1,318 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    (66 | 
    ) | 
      | 
      | 
    2,799 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    (1,477 | 
    ) | 
      | 
      | 
    1,322 | 
      | 
 
    | Income tax expense | 
      | 
      | 
    (14 | 
    ) | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    (14 | 
    ) | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    (14 | 
    ) | 
 
    | Segment income (loss) | 
      | 
      | 
    1,533 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    1,318 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    (66 | 
    ) | 
      | 
      | 
    2,785 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    (1,477 | 
    ) | 
      | 
      | 
    1,308 | 
      | 
 
    | Expenditures for segment assets | 
      | 
      | 
    679 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    214 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    893 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    3 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    896 | 
    (2) | 
 
 
  
Segment Reporting for the Quarter Ended March 31, 2019 
  
    |   | 
      | 
    Treatment | 
      | 
      | 
    Services | 
      | 
      | 
    Medical | 
      | 
      | 
    Segments Total | 
      | 
      | 
    Corporate(1) | 
      | 
      | 
    Consolidated Total | 
      | 
 
    | Revenue from external customers | 
      | 
    $ | 
    9,905 | 
      | 
      | 
    $ | 
    1,803 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
    $ | 
    11,708 | 
      | 
      | 
    $ | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
    $ | 
    11,708 | 
      | 
 
    | Intercompany revenues | 
      | 
      | 
    2 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    21 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    23 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
 
    | Gross profit/(negative) gross profit | 
      | 
      | 
    2,957 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    (456 | 
    ) | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    2,501 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    2,501 | 
      | 
 
    | Research and development | 
      | 
      | 
    147 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    74 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    221 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    6 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    227 | 
      | 
 
    | Interest income | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    81 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    81 | 
      | 
 
    | Interest expense | 
      | 
      | 
    (17 | 
    ) | 
      | 
      | 
    (9 | 
    ) | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    (26 | 
    ) | 
      | 
      | 
    (61 | 
    ) | 
      | 
      | 
    (87 | 
    ) | 
 
    | Interest expense-financing fees | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    (10 | 
    ) | 
      | 
      | 
    (10 | 
    ) | 
 
    | Depreciation and amortization | 
      | 
      | 
    237 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    78 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    315 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    8 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    323 | 
      | 
 
    | Segment income (loss) before income taxes | 
      | 
      | 
    1,875 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    (1,012 | 
    ) | 
      | 
      | 
    (74 | 
    ) | 
      | 
      | 
    789 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    (1,300 | 
    ) | 
      | 
      | 
    (511 | 
    ) | 
 
    | Income tax expense | 
      | 
      | 
    (39 | 
    ) | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    (39 | 
    ) | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    (39 | 
    ) | 
 
    | Segment income (loss) | 
      | 
      | 
    1,836 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    (1,012 | 
    ) | 
      | 
      | 
    (74 | 
    ) | 
      | 
      | 
    750 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    (1,300 | 
    ) | 
      | 
      | 
    (550 | 
    ) | 
 
    | Expenditures for segment assets | 
      | 
      | 
    222 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    2 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    224 | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    — | 
      | 
      | 
      | 
    224 | 
    (2) | 
 
 
  
(1) Amounts reflect the activity
for corporate headquarters not included in the segment information. 
  
(2) Net of financed amount of $82,000
and $4,000 for the three month ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively. 
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