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

WASHINGTON, July 18, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:

JULY 18: CURRENT AFFAIRS

Profile America — Tuesday, July 18th. This week 62 years ago in West Milton, New York, a species of turning swords into plowshares was generated. 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, over 805 million kilowatt hours were generated at nuclear plants — nearly 20 percent of the nation's total electricity output. There are 158 nuclear power generating establishments employing about 46,000 workers in America's $532 billion a year utilities sector. Profile America is in its 21st year as a public service of the U.S. Census Bureau. 

Sources: Kane's Famous First Facts 3548
Swords into plowshares/accessed 5/2/2017: http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1955-57v20/d47
Electricity generated/accessed 5/2/2017: 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/County Business Patterns/NAICS 221113: https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/BP/2015/00A1//naics~221113 
Utilities/Economic Census/NAICS 221: https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ECN/2012_US/00A1//naics~221

SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau

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