ABOUT HISTORYâS PAWN STARS TV SERIES. Series Description | Long before banks, ATMS and check-cashing services, there were pawn shops. Pawning was the leading form of consumer credit in the United States until the 1950s, and pawn shops are still helping everyday people make ends meet.
Hydroelectric power is currently the largest producer of renewable power in the U.S. It produced ar 6.14% of the nation's total electricity in 2015 which was 45.71% of the total renewable power in the U.S. The United States is the fourth largest producer of hydroelectricity in the world after China, Canada and Brazil.
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.