Cameron Reed ran the numbers on that claim and came up with something more like 1%, but that's still a lot for one project. In general "~1%" seems to hold for a lot of Manhattan Project things, e.g. ~1% of all patent applications developed in US during period were from them.
Replying to @wellerstein @Colne_Magna
Found the ref; about 0.9% of the national electricity —https://www.aps.org/units/fhp/newsletters/spring2015/oak-ridge.cfm …
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