Vivendi is a media, telecoms and Internet company still in the process of emerging from its origins as a state-owned water-and-waste utility.

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Brian leads cross-departmental, tactical management plan teams working on environmental improvement -- in the areas of: engagement, alternate funding, utility conservation, waste reduction and recycling, fleet emissions reduction, green purchasing and sustainable development -- leading the district's indoor air quality program recognized by the United States Environmental Protection Agency as a National Model of Sustained Excellence.

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While the Environmental Protection Agency would prefer to regulate the byproduct that contains arsenic, mercury and lead under stricter federal hazardous waste laws, the utility sector wants it to remain classified as a solid waste that the states now oversee.

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Maybe some company could offer a reprocessing service that gives the utility a smaller quantity of waste for the repository plus some nuclear fuel to help offset the cost.

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The site has been a priority for nuclear power companies, which say the department is ignoring the waste piling up at utility company sites.

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The old regulatory paradigm that ties utility profits to generating and selling more energy is actually encouraging waste.

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Already Finnish nuclear utility Posiva is test-drilling the rock beneath Olkiluoto island with the idea of interring waste one-third of a mile down.

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He argues that, for a utility starting from scratch, reprocessing would be two to three times as expensive as simply storing the waste.

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