In January 2000, five companies, Weston Solutions, Inc., RWE NUKEM Corporation, NFT Incorporated, Horne Engineering Services, Inc., and Advanced Integrated Management Services, Inc. (AIMSI) combined their expertise and formed an innovative and successful waste management company, WESKEM, LLC. In the same year, Bechtel Jacobs Company LLC (BJC) awarded WESKEM a $103 million subcontract in Oak Ridge and a $50 million subcontract at the Paducah Site to conduct all waste management activities of both sites. Recently, AIMSI sold its interest in WESKEM to the other member companies.

WESKEM’s scope of work in support of BJC includes:

• radioactive, hazardous, mixed and PCB waste storage
• waste tracking and data management
• facility management, nuclear facility safety evaluation and compliance, and RCRA permit compliance
• waste characterization and profiling
• waste processing and treatment
• waste packaging, shipment, and disposal

WESKEM has safely managed virtually every type of nuclear and hazardous waste including spent nuclear fuel (SNF), special nuclear materials (SNM), shock sensitive materials, contact handled (CH-) and remote handled transuranic (RH-TRU) waste, mixed waste, low-level waste, RCRA/TSCA waste, industrial chemical waste and sanitary wastes.

This proven experience demonstrates broad radioactive waste management expertise. WESKEM can safely manage virtually any type of radioactive, hazardous or mixed waste generated by government or commercial operations. Since fiscal year 2000, WESKEM has shipped off-site over 30 million kilograms of waste from the three Oak Ridge Reservation (ORR) operations (East Tennessee Technology Park, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Y-12 Complex) and the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant. These wastes have gone to five different government and commercial treatment and/or disposal facilities throughout the country.

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