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| 104: | Number of commercially operating nuclear power reactors in the United States. (1) |
| 26: | Number of nuclear plants operated by Entergy, Exelon, Duke Energy, and Southern Company. (2) |
| $2,451,200,000: | First-quarter 2006 gross operating profits of Entergy, Exelon, Duke Energy, and Southern Company. (3) |
| $66,000,000,000: | Amount spent on nuclear energy research and subsidies, 1948-1998. (4) |
| $13,000,000,000: | Amount of additional subsidies for the nuclear industry in the Energy Policy Act of 2005. (5) |
| $585,000: | Average cost for the purchase and installation of a 600 kilowatt onshore wind turbine. (6) |
| 22,222: | Number of wind turbines that could've been built using the nuclear subsidies in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 alone. |
| 14: | Number of years it took to fully complete the cleanup of Three Mile Island's reactor number two after its 1979 partial meltdown. (7) |
| $973,000,000: | Amount spent on the Three Mile Island cleanup. (8) |
| 300,000: | Years that nuclear waste must be stored for it to be considered safe. |
| 0: | Number of approved or operating long-term nuclear waste storage facilities in the United States. |
| 77,000: | Tons of nuclear waste that is supposed to be stored at Yucca Mountain, Nevada--starting in 2017. (9) |
| 3 out of 3: | Number of federal judges that agreed in 2003 that Yucca Mountain is not safe.(10) |
| 105,000: | Number of shipments that would travel through 44 states to move nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain. (11) |
| 50: | Miles around a nuclear facility that must be evacuated in the case of an emergency. |
| 20,000,000: | Number of people within 50 miles of the Indian Point nuclear power plant near New York City, which one of the planes hijacked on September 11, 2001, flew directly over. |
Sources:
(1) http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/power.html
(2) Corporate websites
(3) http://money.cnn.com
(4) Sissine, Fred. "97031: Renewable Energy: Key to Sustainable Energy Supply." Congressional Research Service. May 27, 1999. Congressional Research Service Online. Online. August 20, 2003.
(5) http://www.citizen.org/documents/NuclearEnergyBillFinal.pdf
(6) http://www.windpower.org/en/tour/econ/econ.htm
(7) http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/3mile-isle.html
(8) http://www.ans.org/pi/matters/tmi/cleanup.html
(9) http://www.citizen.org/documents/yucca.pdf
(10) http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=1745
(11) http://www.citizen.org/documents/road.pdf
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