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.
The generators produce electricity. Nuclear power generates electricity much like coal-or diesel-powered plants. What is different from the other two, is that nuclear doesn't produce greenhouse gases like the burning of fossil fuels. It does produce spent nuclear fuel that is radioactive, and this has disposal problems.