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Following a 30-year period in which few new reactors were built, it is expected that six new units may come on line by 2020, four of those resulting from 16 licence applications made since mid-2007 to build 24 new nuclear reactors.

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 100 nuclear reactors produced 798 billion kWh in 2014, over 19% of total electrical output. There are now 99 units operable (98.7 GWe) and five under construction.

Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Reactor's in the USBy:Shelby Grebenc