WESKEM provided the waste management services associated with the disposition of sixty concrete monoliths containing solidified liquids. Each monolith totaled 160 cubic feet in volume, weighed 10 tons, and had surface dose rates of 1000 mR/hr. ALARA plans were developed by Bechtel Jacobs Company, LLC (BJC), the prime contractor, and executed by WESKEM in order to reduce radiation dose exposure to personnel. BJC established an exposure limit of 80 mR/hr cumulative per load, and WESKEM performed the work with a much lower exposure of 10 mR/hr cumulative per load.

Hoisting and rigging personnel utilized remote equipment to maintain appropriate ALARA work distances while securing the monoliths to the crane assembly. A Terex 75 ton, Rough Terrain (R/T) Hydraulic crane then lifted the monoliths onto flat bed trucks for transport to the Nevada Test Site (NTS). WESKEM personnel shipped two monoliths every two days in a three-month period. These monoliths were the first waste materials shipped from the Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) to NTS under the Oak Ridge EM Program.

WESKEM's crew included two riggers, one chemical operator, one crane operator, and one truck driver. The entire project was performed within the budgeted funds in accordance with WESKEM's project specific critical lift plan and the site-wide Radcon contractor's Radiation Work Permit (RWP) with no accidents or OSHA Recordable Incidents.