Watts Bar 2 - Status & History

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Online NRC data, Mon to Fri ? Actual daily reactor status from NRC reports (Mon to Fri) and the current state. What is coming -- the utility's published Scheduled outage and NukeWorker's model Projection -- is part of a subscription. Colored by status. How far ahead you can see depends on your plan.
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OnlineReduced Power
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Composite Operational Excellence Score (0-100) — average percentile rank across 7 dimensions in three sub-scores: Reliability (capacity factor, forced outage days, B2B avg streak), Efficiency (fuel utilization, refuel duration), and Discipline (startup duration, scram count). 5-year window. Higher = more operationally excellent. Click to see the full breakdown.
   
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Days of continuous operation since the last outage ended. Clean run (no forced outages since last refueling).
416
Current Run
days ✔
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Longest recorded period of continuous operation between outages (2025-07-16 to Present).
416
Record Run
days
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Breaker-to-Breaker runs — continuous operation exceeding the cycle-adjusted threshold set for this unit with no trips to 0% power.
0
B2B Runs
90% toward B2B (414/459d)
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Lifetime capacity factor: average power level across all recorded days (100% = always at full power).
84.2%
Capacity Factor
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Net electricity actually generated over the most recent 12 months reported by the U.S. EIA (Form EIA-923), summed across every unit at this plant. Authoritative actuals, not an estimate.
19.69 TWh
Net Generation
EIA-923 · 12 mo to 2026-06 · plant total
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Total number of scheduled refueling outages detected in the historical data.
6
Outages
since 2016
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Average time from first power generation (>0%) to sustained full power (≥95% for 2+ days) across the last 3 scheduled outages. Click to compare against the fleet on the Operator Efficiency Leaderboard.
3.3
Avg Startup
days (last 3)
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Average fuel utilization — percent of the designed fuel cycle that this unit consumes before refueling, derived from the historical burn-down trajectory. Higher = more efficient operator (refuels with less margin remaining; closer to coastdown). Computed as 100% minus the unit's average refuel-point fuel %, using the last 3 years where available, otherwise lifetime average. Click to compare against the fleet on the Operator Efficiency Leaderboard.
100.0%
Fuel Utilization
3yr avg
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NukeWorker's Operational Excellence Score is a composite 0–100 ranking of every active US nuclear unit across 7 measured performance metrics, grouped into three sub-scores:
• Reliability — capacity factor, forced outage days, B2B avg streak
• Efficiency — fuel utilization, refuel duration
• Discipline — startup duration, scram count
Each unit's metric is converted to a percentile across the active fleet. Sub-score = average of its components; composite = average of the three sub-scores. Use the time-window toggle below to switch between 3yr / 5yr / lifetime.
Time window — change how far back we look
5-yr trend: 2021: 18/100 (#86/93)2022: 21/100 (#84/92)2023: 34/100 (#70/92)2024: 32/100 (#76/92)2025: 28/100 (#81/92)2026: 29/100 (#80/93) Stable vs 2025
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Duration of each outage in days, shown chronologically. Green bars are scheduled refueling outages, red bars are forced/unscheduled. The orange dashed line marks the average duration. Extended outages (>180 days) and D&D periods are excluded.

Outage Duration Trend

Watts Bar 2 has 22 outages plotted here, averaging 22 days each. The most recent, in Jul 2025, was a unplanned outage lasting 3 days.
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Time in days from first power generation (>0%) to sustained full power (≥95% for 2+ consecutive days) after each scheduled refueling outage. The dashed line marks the average. Includes startup testing holds and power dips.

Startup Duration Trend

After a refueling outage, Watts Bar 2 takes about 5 days to climb from first power back to full power. That average is drawn from 5 startups on record, and the most recent took 3 days.
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Estimated fuel remaining in the current cycle, expressed as a percentage of the unit's typical cycle. Starts at 100% when the unit returns to power post-refuel and drops as full-power-days are burned. Days at reduced power burn fuel proportionally — so a unit with significant downtime (high burn deficit) drops slower and ends up with MORE fuel left than its calendar position would suggest. Coastdown threshold around 15%. Toggle to overlay past cycles on a normalized "days into cycle" axis to see how aggressively this unit historically burns down before refuel.

Fuel Burn Down Cycle since May 13, 2025

3.5% remaining 5.9 FPD margin
Watts Bar 2 has an estimated 3.5% of its fuel left. Across its last 5 cycles, it has refueled with an average of 5.0% remaining.
Avg refuel: 5.0% Avg refuel (3yr): 0.0% Deepest burn: 0.0% (2019-05 → 2020-10) Most margin: 17.4% (2020-11 → 2022-03)
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Monthly capacity factor with outage events overlaid as red bands. Green bars show average power level per month. Toggle to Daily view for raw daily data.

Power History

Over its operating life, Watts Bar 2 has run at about 84.2% of its rated capacity. Across the last 12 reported months it averaged 99.6%. On the chart, flat stretches near the top are full-power running and drops to zero are outages.
This table logs every recorded outage for Watts Bar 2, 22 in all since 2016. Of those, 6 were scheduled refueling outages and 16 were unplanned or forced. The typical outage lasted about 22 days. Where the Scheduled column shows (Model), the date is a NukeWorker projection because the utility had not published one.
Type ⇅ Actual Start ⇅ Actual End ⇅ Duration ⇅ Days Online ⇅ Scheduled Delta
Scram # 57810
2025-07-14 2025-07-16 3 63d - -
Scheduled U2R6
2025-04-12 2025-05-12 31 402d 2025-04-11 +1d
Scram # 57006
2024-03-05 2024-03-06 2 35d - -
Scram # 56935
2024-01-28 2024-01-30 3 62d - -
Scheduled U2R5
2023-11-04 2023-11-27 24 91d 2023-11-03 +1d
Scram # 56660
2023-08-05 2023-08-05 1 37d - -
Scram # 56593
2023-06-28 2023-06-29 2 363d - -
Scheduled U2R4SGR/Major
2022-03-02 2022-06-30 121 152d 2022-02-28 +2d
Unscheduled
2021-09-11 2021-10-01 21 177d - -
Scram # 55143
2021-03-18 2021-03-18 1 119d - -
Scheduled U2R3
2020-10-24 2020-11-19 27 146d 2020-10-24 0d
Unscheduled
2020-05-16 2020-05-31 16 360d - -
Scram # 54077
2019-05-22 2019-05-22 1 7d - -
Scheduled U2R2
2019-04-13 2019-05-15 33 66d 2019-04-13 0d
Unscheduled
2019-02-03 2019-02-06 4 160d - -
Scram # 53557
2018-08-23 2018-08-27 5 56d - -
Scram # 53467
2018-06-23 2018-06-28 6 71d - -
Scram # 53327
2018-04-13 2018-04-13 1 120d - -
Scram # 53112
2017-12-12 2017-12-14 3 7d - -
Scheduled U2R1
2017-10-28 2017-12-05 39 90d 2017-10-16 +12d
Scram # 52625
2017-03-21 2017-07-30 132 143d - -
Unscheduled
2016-10-23 2016-10-29 7 - - -
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