About 25 percent of all nuclear electricity is generated in the US. France is second with about an eighth. About 20% of all electricity in the US is nuclear. Almost 80% of the electricity in France is nuclear.
Figures for 2006 showed coal at 49 percent, and both nuclear and natural gas at about 19 percent
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It's about 20 percent of total electricity generated
Illinois has several nuclear power plants (see link below) with a total generating capacity of 11,263 MWe. I don't have details of other types of power plants in the state.
Nuclear power accounts for roughly 20% of electricity generation in the United States.
Yes, there are 104 operating reactors in the US
See www.nrc.gov for a list of all US states with nuclear power plants
According to US Energy Information Administration data for 2009, solar energy (based on electricity net generation kilowatthour billion figures) accounted for just 0.2% of total renewable electricity generated in 2009 and just 0.02% of total electricity generated in 2009. All renewable sources (mostly sourced from hydroelectric) accounted for 10.7% of total electricity generated.
Approximately 0.4% of the total electricity generated in the United States comes from geothermal power.
In the United States, nuclear energy accounts for about 20% of the total electricity generated. This makes nuclear energy one of the largest sources of clean and low-carbon electricity in the country. The U.S. has the largest number of nuclear power plants in the world.
The US generates most, with 104 power reactors, but France has the largest percentage at around 80 percent of total electricity