Clinton - Status & History

Comprehensive reactor performance metrics, cycle analysis, and historical outage data.

Reactor Status Timeline

Online NRC data, Mon to Fri ? Actual daily reactor status from NRC reports (Mon to Fri), the current state, and what is coming: the utility's published Scheduled outage plus, for subscribers, NukeWorker's model Projection. Colored by status. How far ahead you can see depends on your plan.
Aug2025SepOctNovDecJan2026FebMarAprMayJunJulAugOnline: Jul 19, 2025 to Jul 26, 2025Coastdown: Jul 27, 2025 to Sep 7, 2025Refueling Outage: Sep 8, 2025 to Oct 3, 2025Power Ascension: Oct 4, 2025 to Oct 6, 2025Scram: Oct 7, 2025Power Ascension: Oct 8, 2025 to Oct 13, 2025Online: Oct 14, 2025 to Oct 22, 2025Scram: Oct 23, 2025 to Oct 29, 2025Power Ascension: Oct 30, 2025 to Nov 1, 2025Online: Nov 2, 2025 to Dec 6, 2025Reduced Power: Dec 7, 2025Online: Dec 8, 2025 to Mar 7, 2026Reduced Power: Mar 8, 2026Online: Mar 9, 2026 to May 30, 2026Reduced Power: May 31, 2026Online: Jun 1, 2026 to Jun 20, 2026Reduced Power: Jun 21, 2026Online: Jun 22, 2026 to Jul 19, 2026Scram (reactor trip): Oct 6, 2025Scram (reactor trip): Oct 22, 2025Today
OnlineReduced PowerCoastdownPower AscensionRefueling OutageScramScram (reactor trip)
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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.
51
Excellence
#38 of 93
Mid Quartile
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Days of continuous operation since the last outage ended. Clean run (no forced outages since last refueling).
263
Current Run
days ✔
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Longest recorded period of continuous operation between outages (2019-10-16 to 2021-09-27).
712
Record Run
days
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Breaker-to-Breaker runs — continuous operation exceeding the cycle-adjusted threshold (626 days for this 24-month cycle unit) with no trips to 0% power.
3
B2B Runs
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Lifetime capacity factor: average power level across all recorded days (100% = always at full power).
89.1%
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). Authoritative actuals, not an estimate.
8.34 TWh
Net Generation
EIA-923 · 12 mo to 2026-04
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Total number of scheduled refueling outages detected in the historical data.
16
Outages
since 1999
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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.
8.7
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.
98.8%
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 publicly observable 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
NukeWorker's
Operational
Excellence Score
51/100
Mid Quartile · #38/93
5-year window

Clinton ranks #38 of 93 active US units on NukeWorker's Operational Excellence Score over the 5-year window. Strongest area: B2B Avg Streak (75th percentile). Weakest: Scrams (5-year) (29th percentile).

Reliability
55
Capacity factor + Forced outages + B2B streaks
Efficiency
70
Fuel utilization + Refuel duration
Discipline
29
Startup duration + Scram count
Cohort Rankings apples-to-apples comparison within each peer group
Reactor type: #15 of 31 BWR
Containment: #1 of 4 Mark III (BWR)
Cycle length: #21 of 40 24-month cycle
Fleet rank above (38 of 93) compares all active US units; cohort ranks compare only against units sharing this property.
Per-dimension breakdown (7 metrics)
Capacity Factor 60th
92.8% (higher better, Reliability)
Forced Outage Days/yr 30th
6.0d (lower better, Reliability)
B2B Avg Streak 75th
691d (higher better, Reliability)
Refuel Duration 70th
27d (lower better, Efficiency)
Scrams (5-year) 29th
0.6/yr (lower better, Discipline)

Each dimension's percentile is computed across the active US fleet (93 units with sufficient history). Sub-score = average of its component percentiles. Composite = average of the three sub-scores. 5-year window. View full leaderboard →

Methodology

NukeWorker's Operational Excellence Score is a composite ranking that combines 7 publicly observable performance metrics into a single 0-100 number per US nuclear unit.

How it's computed: Each unit's raw value is converted to a percentile (0-100) within the 93 active US units that have at least 2 completed refueling cycles. The 7 percentiles are averaged into 3 sub-scores (Reliability, Efficiency, Discipline), and those are averaged into the final composite.

Active window — 5-year:

  • Reliability — Capacity factor (5yr), forced outage days/yr (5yr), B2B avg streak (lifetime)
  • Efficiency — in-cycle fuel utilization (3yr), median refuel duration (5yr)
  • Discipline — robust mean startup duration, scrams/yr (5yr, annualised)

Cohort rankings: alongside the fleet rank, each unit gets ranked within its reactor type (PWR/BWR), containment design (Ice Condenser, Mark I, etc.), and cycle length (12/18/24-month). Useful for apples-to-apples comparisons.

What's excluded: subjective community ratings, confidential INPO ratings, financial metrics. We only use publicly available NRC + cycle data.

Why three windows? 5yr (default) is the industry standard. 3yr captures recent operational changes and post-pandemic recovery. Lifetime gives newer units a fair comparison and reveals long-term consistency.

Edge cases: units with fewer than 2 cycles (e.g., Vogtle 4) show "Provisional". Decommissioned units excluded.

Refresh cadence: recomputed daily. Each window cached separately.

A data-derived proxy for operational performance; not affiliated with INPO. INPO ratings are confidential and qualitative — ours is public and quantitative.

5-yr trend: 2021: 39/100 (#65/93)2022: 55/100 (#43/92)2023: 53/100 (#41/92)2024: 63/100 (#22/93)2025: 52/100 (#34/93)2026: 51/100 (#38/93) 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

Clinton has 60 outages plotted here, averaging 11 days each. The most recent, in Oct 2025, was a unplanned outage lasting 7 days.
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Days between consecutive scheduled refueling outage starts, showing operating cycle regularity. The purple dashed line marks the average cycle length. Most U.S. reactors operate on 18-month (547 day) or 24-month (730 day) cycles.

Cycle Length History

Between refueling outages, Clinton runs about 650 days, or roughly 21 months, per cycle. That average comes from 15 completed cycles, the most recent lasting 728 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, Clinton takes about 7 days to climb from first power back to full power. That average is drawn from 15 startups on record, and the most recent took 10 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 Oct 5, 2025

61.3% remaining 285 / 697 days 15.3 FPD margin
Clinton is 285 days into its current fuel cycle with an estimated 61.3% of its fuel left. This cycle is set up to run about 697 days. Across its last 15 cycles, it has refueled with an average of 17.0% remaining.
Avg refuel: 17.0% Avg refuel (3yr): 1.2% Deepest burn: 0.7% (2019-10 → 2021-09) Most margin: 55.4% (2017-06 → 2018-04)
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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, Clinton has run at about 89.1% of its rated capacity. Across the last 12 reported months it averaged 87.2%. 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 Clinton, 60 in all since 1999. Of those, 16 were scheduled refueling outages and 44 were unplanned or forced. The typical outage lasted about 11 days. Where the Scheduled column shows (Model), the date is a NukeWorker projection because the utility had not published one.
Scram # 58002
2025-10-23 2025-10-29 7 16d - -
Scram # 57967
2025-10-07 2025-10-07 1 4d - -
Scheduled
2025-09-08 2025-10-03 26 701d 2025-09-08 0d
Scheduled
2023-09-11 2023-10-08 28 106d 2023-09-11 0d
Unscheduled
2023-05-28 2023-05-28 1 5d - -
Unscheduled
2023-05-13 2023-05-23 11 99d - -
Scram # 56328
2023-02-01 2023-02-03 3 379d - -
Unscheduled
2022-01-16 2022-01-18 3 79d - -
Unscheduled
2021-10-29 2021-10-29 1 4d - -
Scheduled
2021-09-27 2021-10-25 29 712d 2021-09-27 0d
Scheduled
2019-09-17 2019-10-16 30 43d 2019-09-16 +1d
Scram # 54197
2019-08-03 2019-08-05 3 272d - -
Scram # 53698
2018-10-29 2018-11-04 7 162d - -
Scheduled
2018-04-30 2018-05-20 21 136d 2018-04-30 0d
Scram # 53110
2017-12-10 2017-12-15 6 182d - -
Scram # 52800
2017-06-11 2017-06-11 1 9d - -
Scram # 52777
2017-05-31 2017-06-02 3 3d - -
Scheduled
2017-05-09 2017-05-28 20 348d 2017-05-08 +1d
Unscheduled
2016-05-17 2016-05-26 10 367d - -
Scheduled
2015-04-28 2015-05-16 19 94d 2015-04-27 +1d
Unscheduled
2015-01-22 2015-01-24 3 302d - -
Scram # 49958
2014-03-26 2014-03-26 1 3d - -
Unscheduled
2014-03-21 2014-03-23 3 97d - -
Scram # 49632
2013-12-14 2013-12-14 1 2d - -
Scram # 49617
2013-12-09 2013-12-12 4 42d - -
Scheduled
2013-10-08 2013-10-28 21 164d 2013-10-07 +1d
Scram # 48974
2013-04-27 2013-04-27 1 50d - -
Scram # 48812
2013-03-08 2013-03-08 1 444d - -
Scheduled # 47489
2011-11-30 2011-12-20 21 664d 2011-11-30 0d
Scheduled
2010-01-11 2010-02-04 25 79d 2010-01-11 0d
Unscheduled
2009-10-16 2009-10-24 9 14d - -
Unscheduled
2009-09-30 2009-10-02 3 597d - -
Unscheduled Startup Hold
2008-02-11 2008-02-11 1 7d - -
Scheduled
2008-01-12 2008-02-04 24 206d 2008-01-14 -2d
Unscheduled
2007-06-20 2007-06-20 1 295d - -
Unscheduled
2006-08-28 2006-08-29 2 160d - -
Unscheduled
2006-03-21 2006-03-21 1 24d - -
Scheduled
2006-01-31 2006-02-25 26 324d 2006-01-30 +1d
Unscheduled
2005-03-12 2005-03-13 2 10d - -
Unscheduled
2005-02-23 2005-03-02 8 221d - -
Unscheduled
2004-07-14 2004-07-17 4 112d - -
Unscheduled
2004-03-23 2004-03-24 2 28d - -
Scheduled
2004-02-03 2004-02-24 22 61d 2004-02-03 0d
Unscheduled
2003-12-03 2003-12-04 2 235d - -
Unscheduled
2003-04-11 2003-04-12 2 281d - -
Unscheduled
2002-07-04 2002-07-04 1 52d - -
Unscheduled
2002-05-13 2002-05-13 1 9d - -
Scheduled
2002-04-02 2002-05-04 33 107d 2002-04-02 0d
Unscheduled
2001-12-16 2001-12-16 1 145d - -
Unscheduled
2001-07-24 2001-07-24 1 58d - -
Unscheduled
2001-05-26 2001-05-27 2 110d - -
Unscheduled
2001-02-04 2001-02-05 2 45d - -
Unscheduled
2000-12-19 2000-12-21 3 39d - -
Scheduled
2000-10-15 2000-11-10 27 67d 2000-10-15 0d
Unscheduled
2000-08-02 2000-08-09 8 58d - -
Unscheduled
2000-06-03 2000-06-05 3 12d - -
Unscheduled
2000-05-18 2000-05-22 5 362d - -
Unscheduled
1999-05-20 1999-05-22 3 2d - -
Unscheduled
1999-05-15 1999-05-18 4 9d - -
Scheduled SGR/Major
1999-01-01 1999-05-06 126 - 1999-01-01 0d
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