http://www.uic.com.au/nip08.htm Fuel costs for nuclear plants are a minor proportion of total generating costs and often about one-third those for coal-fired plants. A third of the cost of coal? It sounds good, but wall street weasel investment touts are predicting that nuclear fuel proces will triple in the near term as more power plants come online. That leaves nuclear with no fuel cost advantage..and the huge disadvantage of costing a lot more to build than coal, or of course wind power. And how much will these new waste processing nuclear plants cost? With inflation running along since the last plants were built years ago, NIMBY lawsuits over plant location, and the added complexity of the waste processing nukes...what? Maybe 10 times the cost of the initial round of nuclear power plants? And BTW, weren't the pebble bed reactors supposed to be the great new nuclear hope? Safer, more efficient, inexpensive construction? How would one redesign the pebble bed reactors to reprocess waste? Would it take a whole new round of engineering and testing taking decades to complete?