As the Waste Management contractor under contract to Bechtel Jacobs Company LLC (BJC) at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Paducah KY, WESKEM was responsible for managing all legacy and newly generated radioactive, RCRA hazardous, TSCA, and sanitary wastes. WESKEM managed all aspects of the waste program conduct of operations including waste characterization, packaging, storage, processing, transportation, treatment, and disposal. WESKEM was responsible for implementing the requirements of 10 CFR 830 for the safe and compliant onsite and offsite shipment and storage of nuclear waste materials, and wastes containing hazardous chemicals. Responsibilities included the management of 480 cubic feet of low-level waste and 222,480 cubic feet of mixed waste.  WESKEM shipped over 7 million kilograms of waste to offsite treatment and disposal facilities across the country.

Specific WESKEM waste management activities and projects included:

• Characterization, remediation and disposal of the HC-318 Technetium Tank involving liquids and solids with very high concentration of technetium.
• Characterization and remediation of the abandoned C-400-04 Gold Dissolver Room requiring the highest levels of safety hazards analysis and personnel protection.
• Maintenance of all waste management areas and wastes, including operation and maintenance of approximately 500,000 square feet of waste storage space currently containing approximately 395,000 ft³ of mixed radioactive hazardous (PCBs), radioactive, hazardous, sanitary, classified, and investigation derived wastes.
• Characterization and packaging of excess materials and waste stored in 160 DOE Material Storage Areas (DMSAs). Activities included planning, supervision and technical support for corrective actions within 160 DMSAs as well as material inspection, inventory, sampling, analysis evaluation, and waste containerization.
• Operation of solid waste landfills. WESKEM provided the operation and maintenance of the active C-746-U Solid Waste Landfill and the maintenance of the C-746-S and C-746-T closed landfills in compliance with the federal and state permits.
• Mixed Waste Characterization, Treatment, and Disposal Services. WESKEM provided services for mixed waste sampling, waste characterization, analytical compilation, reporting, and technical services required to ensure compliance with the Site Treatment Plan.
• Low-Level Radioactive Waste Treatment and Disposal Services. WESKEM provided shipments of low-level radioactive wastes in storage at Paducah to NRC-licensed commercial facilities or NTS. The scope of work included waste characterization as needed to support analytical data compilation and review, waste profiling and certification, preparing shipment readiness review information, overpacking containers, repackaging containers, staging containers, loading containers for transportation, and DOT document preparation.
• Waste Water Treatment. WESKEM was responsible for characterization and processing all waste water contaminated with trace quantities of radioactivity or organic materials, characterization of water for Kentucky Pollution Discharge Elimination System (KPDES) parameters after processing, discharge of water meeting surface water limits, operation of the treatment units including media change-out, and management of the secondary wastes.
• TSCA Federal Facility Compliance Act (FFCA) Implementation. WESKEM was responsible for completing all activities necessary to demonstrate compliance with the EPA and DOE Headquarters TSCA FFCA for PCB waste streams issued at the PGDP.