The option — mixing plutonium oxide with an inert material and disposal in the Waste Isolation
Pilot Plant (WIPP)-- would require modifying the PMDA and increasing the statutory
capacity of WIPP (operations at WIPP are currently uncertain due to the February accidental radiation release).
An Austrian company, Gaskoks, obtained the technology from the South African Agricultural Engineers; the company erected the first biodiesel
pilot plant in November 1987, and the first industrial - scale
plant in April 1989 (with a
capacity of 30,000 tons of canola rapeseed per annum).