Point Beach 1 trips offline, unscheduled outage underway

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Point Beach 1, Two Rivers, Wisconsin.

This is the unit's first unscheduled outage of 2026. It ends a stretch of more than 5 years without an unscheduled outage.

TWO RIVERS, WI. Point Beach 1 was reported offline in the NRC's Nov 11, 2026 daily power report, beginning an unscheduled outage. 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 Nov 4, 2026 from a 26-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 84.7% (11 units currently refueling, 4 units in unscheduled outages), below the 88.0% baseline for this month over the past five years. At the same site, Point Beach 2 is currently offline. Cooper, Point Beach 2, and Summer also experienced unscheduled outages within the past week. While the unit is down, that takes about 478,000 homes' worth of generation off the grid.

Point Beach 1 is a 598-MW Westinghouse 2-loop PWR operated by NextEra Energy (commercial operation since 1970). The utility operates both units at this site and 5 more at 3 other U.S. plants. Ownership history: Nuclear Management Co took over running it from WE Energies in August 2000, and NextEra (FPL) bought it from WE Energies in September 2007. Its operating license runs through 2050 (renewed in 2025).

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