Hatch 2 trips offline, unscheduled outage underway

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Hatch 2 began a forced short unscheduled outage on 2026-05-11, ending a 406-day unscheduled-outage-free streak. This event marks the first forced outage for the unit in 2026, matching the total count for all of 2025. NukeWorker projections estimate a duration of about 8 days for this outage.

BAXLEY, GA — Hatch 2 entered an unscheduled outage on May 11, 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, which had 1 unscheduled outage in all of 2025. Prior to this trip, the unit had run for about 14 months without an unscheduled outage.

Based on the unit's history and similar reactor types, projected total duration is about 8 days. NukeWorker's predictive model scores 96% 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 91.3% (5 currently in refueling), above the 87.0% baseline for this month over the past five years. At the same site, Hatch 1 is running at full power. Quad Cities 2 also had an unscheduled outage within the past week.

Hatch 2 is an 883-MW General Electric BWR/4 operated by Georgia Power (commercial operation since 1979). At full power, it supplies enough electricity for roughly 706,000 homes. The utility operates 5 other U.S. nuclear units. Its operating license runs through 2038 (renewed in 2002).

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

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Hatch 2 returned to service on May 15 following a five-day forced outage that began on May 11. This duration was three days shorter than the initial eight-day projection provided by NukeWorker. The unit has recorded one forced outage so far in 2026, matching the total count for the entire year of 2025.

Hatch 2 returned to service on May 15, 2026 after a 5-day unscheduled outage that began on May 11, 2026. A multi-day outage in this range typically points to a single equipment fix rather than a major component issue.

NukeWorker's predictive model projected this at about 8 days at outage start; actual was 3 days shorter.

The 5-day outage removed roughly 97,000 MWh from the grid, worth approximately $4 million at recent wholesale prices, equivalent to a year's electricity for about 9,000 homes.

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