text: using scientific notation:? at the end of 1993, there were 109 nuclear power plants operating in the united states. these plants generated a total of 6,520,000,000,000,000 btu ( british thermal unit) of electric power in 1993. how much energy was generated per plant? if each plant generated the same amount of energy, then 6,520,000,000,000,000 must be divided by 109, then translated into scientific notation.  5.98165138 × 10^13 btu i solved this using the google calculator.