1 If your plan document says you use a W-2 or FICA definition of compensation, that does not mean you can automatically use a participantâs W-2 box 1 or box 5 wages for compensation. 2  Usually these definitions require you to add or subtract additional items.
General U.S. Nuclear Info. U.S. electricity from nuclear energy in 2016: 19.7 percent, with 805.3 billion kilowatt-hours generated. Number of states with operating reactors: 30. Nuclear plants made up the largest percentage of the electricity generated in 2016 in six states. Nuclear industry capacity factor (2016): 92.1 percent.
Nuclear power plants generate electricity. Most power plants burn fuel to produce electricity, but not nuclear power plants. Instead, nuclear plants use the heat given off during fission as fuel. Fission takes place inside the reactor of a nuclear power plant. At the center of the reactor is the core, which contains the uranium fuel.