Red stars indicate six sites where applications for combined construction and operating licenses have been submitted to the nuclear regulatory commission and are actively. Green stars on the united states map indicate the locations of two new reactor projects that are under construction. Skip to main page content skip to search skip to site map navigation skip to footer links home.
The nuclear regulatory commission protecting people and the environment. Every year only 20 is generated by nuclear facilities. Of the 4 trillion kwhs of electricity produced by the u s.
This map accounts for the megawatts or mwt of nuclear energy produced per state and displays each nuclear generating facility s contribution toward each state s total nuclear output. In 2018 nuclear energy comprised nearly 50 percent of u s. In 2019 they produced a total of 809 409 thousand megawatt hours of electricity which accounted for 20 of the nation s total electric energy generation.
Nuclear power in the united states is provided by 96 commercial reactors with a net capacity of 98 gigawatts gw 64 pressurized water reactors and 32 boiling water reactors. Those power stations that are smaller than 1 000 mw and those that are only at a planning or proposal stage may be found in regional lists at the end of the page or in the list of nuclear reactors. Kml gpx the following page lists all nuclear power stations that are larger than 1 000 mw in current net capacity.
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Across the united states 95 nuclear reactors power tens of millions of homes and anchor local communities.
