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Percent of US using nuclear energy?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

About 19% of the electricity used is from nuclear power, but all the lower 48 states of the United States use some nuclear power. Alaska and Hawaii are separate.

Electrical power is conducted on a grid. The power goes into the grid from various power stations, and is used by various users. If a power plant goes down, the grid distributes power continuously because other plants continue and take up the slack. There are not many people who can say their power comes from a specific power plant, and most of those are probably off grid users (people who generate their own power).

One estimate is 180,000 families, which might be 900,000 people, are off grid. In addition, roughly 700,000 people who live in Alaska and 1,300,000 in Hawaii have power that does not come from nuclear plants. That totals about 2,180,000, or about 0.7% of the population of the United States who use no nuclear power.

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