Aielman beat me to it I see. Not only is Yucca not full, it doesn't have a fucking gram of waste stored in it yet. Fogel, whatever has misled you I suggest you get angry about it and question all your conclusions.

Also, the waste generated by nuclear power electricity generation for an individual over their entire LIFETIME amounts to about the size of a can of soda/pop. Al Gore, of course, would have a coffee can's worth. :p

Want some more facts?

http://www.amazon.com/Power-Save-World-Nuclear-Energy/dp/0307266567/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213856897&sr=8-1

Nuclear power emits no gases because it does not burn anything; it provides 73% of America's clean-air electricity generation, using fuel that is tiny in volume but steadily provides an immense amount of energy.

Uranium is more energy-dense than any other fuel. If you got all of your electricity for your lifetime solely from nuclear power, your share of the waste would fit in a single soda can. If you got all your electricity from coal, your share would come to 146 tons: 69 tons of solid waste that would fit into six rail cars and 77 tons of carbon dioxide that would contribute to accelerated global warming.

A person living within 50 miles of a nuclear plant receives less radiation from it in a year than you get from eating one banana. Someone working in the U.S. Capitol Building is exposed to more radioactivity than a uranium miner.

Spent nuclear fuel is always shielded and isolated from the public. Annual waste from one typical reactor could fit in the bed of a standard pickup. The retired fuel from 50 years of U.S. reactor operation could fit in a single football field; it amounts to 77,000 tons. A large coal-fired plant produces ten times as much solid waste in one day, much of it hazardous to health. We discard 179,000 tons of batteries annually--they contain toxic heavy metals.

Nuclear power's carbon dioxide emissions throughout its life-cycle and while producing electricity are about the same as those of wind power.

Nuclear plants offer a clean alternative to fossil-fuel plants. In the U.S. 104 nuclear reactors annually prevent emissions of 682 million tons of CO2. Worldwide, over 400 power reactors reduce CO2 emissions by 2 billion metric tons a year.