New technology might be able to halve the amount of water again, says Mike Fatigati, vice president of Delta-T Corp, a Virginia company which has designed a system that does not discharge any waste water.
Montana's Department of Environmental Quality and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are in negotiations with Blixseth over alleged violations of the Clean Water Act, including the discharge of waste without a permit and the deposit of fill material in wetlands.
They are calling for nuclear reprocessing to be suspended, claiming the discharge of tiny traces of radioactivity, which are pumped out from a waste pipe, can be detected in seaweed and shellfish as far away as Norway.