A couple of good articles for anyone interested in the pebble bed reactor:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.09/china.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_bed_reactor

If anyone doesn't like nuclear, the alternatives are coal and natural gas..

Don't worry about the nuke waste... that's what Yucca Mountain is for.  I saw a truck with 2 containers on it going down the highway the other day..  Maybe it was headed there?  It was headed west on I-40..

Apparently the nuclear wastes can be minimized far more than now if we were to actively recycle them just as we do other materials.