Quad Cities 2 trips offline, unscheduled outage underway

[Outage Wire]

CORDOVA, IL — An unscheduled outage at Quad Cities 2 began on May 9, 2026. The NRC has not yet issued an event notification for this trip; this post will be updated if one is filed.

This is the first unscheduled outage of 2026 for the unit. Prior to this trip, the unit had run for more than 2 years without an unscheduled outage.

Based on the unit's history and similar reactor types, projected total duration is about 6 days. NukeWorker's predictive model scores 94% on forced-outage duration accuracy for this unit, with past calls usually landing within a day.

Across the U.S. fleet of 94 commercial reactors, today's combined capacity factor is 85.6% (9 currently in refueling, 2 in unscheduled outages), below the 87.0% baseline for this month over the past five years. At the same site, Quad Cities 1 is running at full power. Hatch 2 also had an unscheduled outage within the past week.

Quad Cities 2 is a 911-MW General Electric BWR/3 operated by Constellation Nuclear (commercial operation since 1973). At full power, it supplies enough electricity for roughly 729,000 homes. The utility operates 20 other U.S. nuclear units. Its operating license runs through 2032 (renewed in 2004).

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Sources: NRC Daily Reactor Power Status reports, utility-published outage schedules, and NukeWorker's predictive model.