Nuclear waste management specialist EnergySolutions, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT) announced that it has modified the terms of an agreement under which private equity firm Energy Capital Partners II, LLC (ECP; Short Hills, NJ) is to acquire the company. Under the terms of the amended agreement, EnergySolutions' shareholders will receive $4.15 in cash for each share they hold, up from $3.75 per share in the original agreement. In a release, EnergySolutions said that Carlson Capital, L.P., the largest beneficial institutional owner of the company's stock, had previously voiced opposition to the acquisition but has "informed the company that they intend to vote in favor of the transaction based on the amended terms." Tyler Reeder, a partner at ECP, commented "we have increased the purchase price principally to gain broader support of shareholders for this transaction.