U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for July 18: Current Affairs

WASHINGTON, July 18, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:

CURRENT AFFAIRS

Profile America — Monday, July 18th. On this date 61 years ago in West Milton, New York, a species of turning swords into plowshares was created. That was when the Atomic Energy Commission sold electric power from a General Electric nuclear reactor. The buyer was the Niagara-Mohawk Power Corporation, purchasing the power for civilian distribution. Some 10,000 kilowatts were supplied from the reactor, which was a prototype for the one used in the nuclear submarine USS Seawolf. Last year, nearly 800 million kilowatt-hours were generated at nuclear plants — around 20 percent of the nation's total electricity output. There are 149 nuclear power generating establishments in the U.S., employing over 48,000 workers in America's $530 billion a year utilities sector. You can find more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau online at www.census.gov.

Sources: Kane's Famous First Facts 3548 Swords into plowshares/accessed 4/28/2016: http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1955-57v20/d47 Electricity generated/accessed 4/28/2016:  https://www.eia.gov/nuclear/generation/xls/usreact16.xlsx Percent/accessed 4/28/2016: https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=427&t=3 Nuclear power generation and employment/NAICS 221113: http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/BP/2014/00A1//naics~221113 Utilities/NAICS 221: http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/BP/2014/00A1//naics~221113 

Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotion of the U.S. Census Bureau. Statistics and accounts drawn from cited non-Census sources are employed for illustrative or narrative purposes, and are not attested to by the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Audio" in the "Library" pull-down menu). 

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