Nuclear Energy Use In USA Only 8% And Dropping - Renewable Energy Use at 9% And Rising Fast

Germany shows by example how nuclear can be phased out. As of 2012, nuclear energy use in the U.S. is only around 8% and dropping. Several more nuclear plants have closed since this statistic came out, so the total should actually be lower than that. 

Renewable energy use is 9% and rising in the US, as of 2013. 

Amory Lovins - Global Decline Of Nuclear Energy - Renewable Energy Production Now Outpaces Nuclear; via @AGreenRoad

http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2013/07/amory-lovins-global-decline-of-nuclear.html

2012 - China, Japan and Germany Generated More Electricity From Renewable Energy Sources Than From Nuclear; via @AGreenRoad

http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2013/11/2012-china-japan-and-germany-generated.html

ENERGY BREAKDOWN IN US AS OF 2012

Infoplease breakdown of energy use in the U.S. for 2012;

Oil 35%

Natural gas 25% 

Coal 20% 

Renewable Energy 9% 

Nuclear 8% 

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0920633.html#ixzz2fFN0tKE6

One graph showing 19% of nuclear energy in US is generated here. 

http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/annual/pdf/sec9_4.pdf

Another graph shows only 8% of nuclear energy is consumed in the USA. 

http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=11951&src=Total-b2

Explanation of what may look like confusing numbers...

The nuclear industry may very well be generating 19% of all energy in the USA, but less than 50% of what they generate is being consumed. Does that mean the rest is wasted or lost to cooling spent fuel pools and pumping water through nuclear reactors to keep them from melting down and exploding? Does the difference include what is used up for mining uranium, processing it, shipping it and converting it? 

DOCUMENTATION OF NUCLEAR INDUSTRY ONLY PROVIDING 8% OF ENERGY USED IN USA AS OF 2012

For those who do not believe the above graphs... 

Here are some more sources and graphs that prove that the U.S. only uses 8% nuclear energy: 

Lawrence Livermore Labs

Estimated Energy Use 2012 - nuclear energy 8.05% 

https://www.llnl.gov/news/newsreleases/2013/Jul/images/28228_flowcharthighres.png

University of Michigan

Nuclear energy use – 8% 

http://css.snre.umich.edu/css_doc/CSS03-12.pdf

American Institute Of Professional Geologists

"Nuclear – 8% of U.S. total energy 

http://www.aipg.org/

Publications/pdf/AIPG%20Domestic%20Energy%20Statement.pdf

Energy Backed Money.com 

In 2008 the primary sources of energy consumed in the US.... nuclear (8%)

http://www.energybackedmoney.com/chapter5.html

IT IS TIME TO SHUT DOWN ALL NUCLEAR PLANTS

NUCLEAR INDUSTRY FACES SEVERE OBSTACLE: IT IS THE MOST EXPENSIVE ENERGY SOURCE, OFTEN DOUBLE OR $400% MORE THAN ANY OTHER SOURCE OF ENERGY, WITH NO SOLUTION FOR 1 MILLION YEAR NUCLEAR WASTE ISSUE ON TOP OF THAT

According to DailyKos; "Entergy Corporation’s August 27, 2013 announcement of the pending shutdown of the Vermont Yankee reactor at the end of its current fuel cycle was just the latest blow to the industry, which already has seen four other reactor shutdowns (the most in one year ever) and the abandonment of six proposed new reactors, not to mention cancellation of five planned power uprates. And more may be coming.

SOLAR, WIND, WATER POWER INDUSTRIES ARE GROWING AT FRENETIC PACE

Alternatives to nuclear power, especially solar and wind, are growing at a frenetic pace as costs plunge. A rooftop photovoltaic system is now being installed in the U.S. every four minutes, and that will become every 90 seconds by 2016. John Wellinghoff, the chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said in August 2013 that “Solar is growing so fast it is going to overtake everything.” If a single drop of water on the pitcher’s mound at Dodger Stadium is doubled every minute, Wellinghoff said, a person chained to the highest seat would be in danger of drowning in an hour. “That’s what is happening in solar. It could double every two years," he said. The goal of a nuclear-free, carbon-free energy system by mid-century suddenly seems quite attainable. 

DailyKos: 2013's Astounding Collapse of the U.S. Nuclear Power Industry: the New Normal. 

The nuclear industry is imploding, a nuclear-free carbon-free future is increasingly attainable, and those are both good things. We can hasten this process by turning out in big numbers at every one of the Waste Confidence meetings. Let's do it. Michael Mariotte, Executive Director,Nuclear Information and Resource Service, www.nirs.org nirsnet@nirs.org

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