claim: "twenty percent of our electricity currently comes from nuclear power plants. i think there are 104 in the united states, two of them around the coast in california."
author: bill kristol
evidence_1: nuclear power in the united states is provided by 99 commercial reactors with a  net summer capacity of 100,350 megawatts (mw), 65 pressurized water reactors  and 34 boiling water reactors. in 2016 they produced a total of 805.3 terawatt- hours of electricity, which accounted for 19.7% of the nation's total electric energy  ...
evidence_2: jan 22, 2010 ... in my mind, that's one of the most important numbers in the debate over whether  to expand nuclear power in the u.s. the country currently has 104 commercial  nuclear plants and these plants provide approximately 20 percent of the  electricity for the nation. (the navy also has 103 nuclear reactors). that's a ...
evidence_3: mar 18, 2011 ... california itself has two coastal nuclear plants with one less than a half mile from  a fault line. let's take a closer ... there are currently 104 operational nuclear  power plants in the united states--35 boiling water reactors, 69 pressurized  water reactors--providing 20% of the country's electricity. the above map ...
evidence_4: jun 21, 2016 ... when two reactors at the san onofre nuclear power plant in southern california  closed in 2013, they were largely replaced by natural gas generation, leading to  higher carbon-dioxide emissions. and diablo canyon is even bigger, supplying 9  percent of california's electricity. pg&e claims it can avoid a ...
evidence_5: nuclear energy supplies a larger share of that power than many people realize.  at present, about 20 percent of the electricity in the united states is generated by  104 nuclear power plants across the country, making it the leading nation in total  installed nuclear capacity. there are now 440 reactors in operation around the ...