http://www.scientific-alliance.org/news_archives/energy/visionsofanuclear.htm#top

This is a promising development that has been overlooked by the debate on reviving nuclear power.

It uses a particle accelerator to make even radioactive waste fuel for a sub-critical reactor.  Sub-critical means that the reactor simply shuts down without the energy fed into it by the particle accelerator, theoretically making it safe from melrdown, with the sadded benefit of being able to use radioactive waste as fuel.

And rendering that waste non-radioactive after a period within the reactor.  Eureka the solution to rad waste?

Well yes it might be, but of course the cost of the electricity produced would be many times that of the present (and still falling) cost of wind electricity.  But why not build one of these ar Yucca Moutain or at another centrally located site to get rid of the waste we already are burdened with?

If this test project is successful it seems to be a solution to the waste problem that will be much cheaper and safer than storing it all in those open used fuel rod storage pools. 

Throw the nuclear industry a bone and get out of the waste problem, but don't allow anymore uneconomic, dangerous  waste producing reactors to be built.  I think that's a solution we could all live with.

Plus the HUGE accelerator (bigger than any ever built) needed to power this reactor might double as a research reactor?  Powering pure research into the nature of sub atomic physics, the microcosm.  And in turn the macrocosm out there in the universe.