future of nuclear energy in the united states

 

• The USA is the world's largest producer of nuclear power, accounting for more than 30% of worldwide nuclear generation of electricity.
• The country's nuclear reactors produced 843 billion kWh in 2019, about 19% of total electrical output.
• Following a 30-year period in which few new reactors were built, it is expected that two more new units will come online soon after 2020, these resulting from 16 licence applications made since mid-2007 to build 24 new nuclear reactors.
• Some states have liberalized wholesale electricity markets, which makes the financing of capital-intensive power projects difficult, and coupled with lower gas prices since 2009, have put the economic viability of some existing reactors and proposed projects in doubt.
• The first zero-emissions credit atomic energy nuclear USA company Nuclear Fast and Future USA .