Vogtle 2 trips offline, unscheduled outage underway

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Vogtle 2, Waynesboro, Georgia.

Vogtle 2 entered an unscheduled outage and was reported at 0% power in the NRC daily report of Nov 3, 2026. The NukeWorker forced-outage duration projection is about 3 days. This marks 1 forced outage for the unit so far in 2026, compared to 0 in all of 2025.

WAYNESBORO, GA. Vogtle 2 entered an unscheduled outage and was at 0% power in the NRC's Nov 3, 2026 daily power report. The NRC has not yet issued an event notification for this trip; a follow-up reply will be posted here if one is filed.

This is the first unscheduled outage of 2026 for the unit. The unit had just returned to service on Oct 22, 2026 from a 40-day refueling outage.

Based on the unit's history and similar reactor types, projected total duration is about 3 days.

Across the U.S. fleet of 94 commercial reactors, today's combined capacity factor is 81.0% (15 units currently refueling, 2 units in unscheduled outages), below the 88.0% baseline for this month over the past five years. At the same site, Vogtle 1, Vogtle 3, and Vogtle 4 are all running at full power. Cooper also had an unscheduled outage within the past week. While the unit is down, that takes about 922,000 homes' worth of generation off the grid.

Vogtle 2 is a 1,152-MW Westinghouse 4-loop PWR operated by Southern Nuclear (commercial operation since 1989). The utility operates all 4 units at this site and 4 more at 2 other U.S. plants. Its operating license runs through 2049 (renewed in 2009).

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Sources: NRC Daily Reactor Power Status reports, validated outage schedules, and NukeWorker's projections.