Waste eating reactors? Where will they be built. Not in my back yard. Who will pay for them? That extra money collected with customer's power bills to pay for waste storage was used up 10 times over for those fuel rod storage pools. Yucca Mountain's 50 (who know's it may be 200 billion, it's all secret) billion dollar cost is over and above that. As with oil, where 1 dollar per gallon of fuel is currently being borrowed from future generations to pay for oil wars, nuclear cost fantasies like that 1.72 cents per kwh are pure propaganda. Your solution to the huge problems with current nuclear plants is to build a next generation of "safer" plants that recycle nuclear waste? Since you object to nuclear regulators getting "$200 per hour" (consulting nuclear engineers charge how much, maybe $500 per hour?), do I assume correctly that you embrace the infamous neocorporate talking point of industry "self-regulation"? With the revolving door between nuclear industry managment and government nuclear regulators, how could we the people expect any better results from this new generation of "safer" reactors, than was obtained from ongoing disasters like Hanford, rocky Flats, Oak Ridge, Chernobyl....and on and on. Of course consumers and taxpayers will pick up the tab for this whole new round of nuclear industry mega spending, as usual. The current cost estimates for wind are taken from wind farms in operation. Energy storage combined with a broad national grid of renewable power will take care of the internmittent supply problems of green enerrgy. Your estimate for the cost of nukes is pure industry propaganda calculated neglecting all the extra costs hidden for national security reasons, which is pure propaganda also. It is the nuclear industry protecting it's own ass..sets. When it comes to trusting the proclamations of the nuclear "priesthood" (a group cloisterd in national security, hehey) the famous Bush mistatement comes to mind.. "fool me once...ahh... fool me..we won't get fooled again".