Summer trips offline, unscheduled outage underway

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Summer, Jenkinsville, South Carolina.

Summer began an unscheduled outage, dropping to 0% power in the NRC daily report of Nov 8, 2026. This event brings the forced-outage count for the unit to 2 so far in 2026, compared to 3 in all of 2025. Additionally, 4 other U.S. units began unscheduled outages within 5 days of this one.

JENKINSVILLE, SC. Summer entered an unscheduled outage and was at 0% power in the NRC's Nov 8, 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 second unscheduled outage of 2026 for the unit, which had 3 unscheduled outages in all of 2025. Its most recent outage was a 41-day refueling outage that ended in April 2026.

Across the U.S. fleet of 94 commercial reactors, today's combined capacity factor is 84.2% (12 units currently refueling, 3 units in unscheduled outages), below the 88.0% baseline for this month over the past five years. Point Beach 2, Cooper, Arkansas Nuclear 2, and Vogtle 2 also experienced unscheduled outages within the past week. While the unit is down, that takes about 782,000 homes' worth of generation off the grid.

Summer is a 977-MW Westinghouse 3-loop PWR operated by Dominion Energy (commercial operation since 1984). The utility operates 6 other U.S. nuclear units at 3 other plants. Ownership history: Dominion took it over in a January 2019 merger with SCANA. Its operating license runs through 2062 (renewed in 2025).

Heading to Jenkinsville, SC for support work? WECTEC holds the radiation protection staffing contract here. Current per-diem averages $113/night lodging plus $68/day meals (total $181/day), and Unemployment Benefits are $326 weekly. South Carolina taxes wages on a graduated scale, about 5.0% effective. NukeWorker lists 1 open job at V.C. Summer and 65 more across South Carolina.

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