> All the waste used to power a life of electrical usage creates was the size of a pea. Source on this? Best I could find shows that 3 cubic meters of waste i

> All the waste used to power a life of electrical usage creates was the size of a pea. Source on this? Best I could find shows that 3 cubic meters of waste is generated per year for a "typical 1000 MWe light water reactor" after reprocessing and all (which isn't always done). [1] With 99 plants in the US (not counting the plants with multiple reactors) that leads to 297m^3 of waste. With a population of 318 million, that's about 9.3x10-7, or approximately 4-5 peas per year or 367 peas over the course of a lifetime. [1] http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Nuclear-Fuel-Cycle/Nuclear-Wastes/Radioactive-Waste-Management/#ManageHLW http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Nuclear-Fuel-Cycle/Nuclear... EDIT: Forgot that we only get about 20% of our power from nuclear energy, so it's actually closer to 1835 peas.