Pebble reactors

Tom,
How about the pros & cons about pebble reactors. I understand they aresafer than the ones currently in use and even new construction of nuclearfacilities will produce electricity at 4 cents a kilowatt about 1/3 thecost of oil/nat gas.
Thanks,
Richard Abbott
Hancock

Hi,
This is a great question for Dick Hill, but I think I can deal with it.As far as I am concerned, the genie is out of the bottle and we need to, atvery least,investigate and develop any technology that is safe and can more completelyutilize the vast amount of energy inherent in nuclear fuels. The morecompletely they can be used, the less toxic they become.We are already on this road and are falling behind the rest of the world,due to well intentioned, but myopic uninformed biases from the past.We need an objective overview of all alternatives but, alas, I do not thinkpoliticians are capable of doing this.
Tom