Dresden 2 - 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) 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.
Oct2025NovDecJan2026FebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOnline: Sep 12, 2025 to Sep 23, 2025Coastdown: Sep 24, 2025 to Oct 26, 2025Refueling Outage (D2R29): Oct 27, 2025 to Nov 17, 2025D2R29Power Ascension: Nov 18, 2025 to Nov 21, 2025Online: Nov 22, 2025 to Nov 29, 2025Reduced Power: Nov 30, 2025Online: Dec 1, 2025 to May 23, 2026Reduced Power: May 24, 2026Online: May 25, 2026 to Sep 3, 2026Scram: Sep 4, 2026 to Sep 9, 2026Reduced Power: Sep 10, 2026Online: Sep 11, 2026 to Sep 12, 2026Scram (reactor trip): Sep 3, 2026Today
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.
   
Excellence
ranked of 93
Subscribers
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Days of continuous operation since the last outage ended. Clean run (no forced outages since last refueling).
3
Current Run
days ✔
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Longest recorded period of continuous operation between outages (2023-11-15 to 2025-10-27).
712
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.
3
B2B Runs
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Lifetime capacity factor: average power level across all recorded days (100% = always at full power).
92.9%
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.
15.12 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.
14
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.
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.
99.0%
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: 78/100 (#11/93)2022: 73/100 (#18/92)2023: 71/100 (#18/92)2024: 81/100 (#12/92)2025: 78/100 (#12/92)2026: 81/100 (#11/93) ↑ +2.5 pts 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

Dresden 2 has 41 outages plotted here, averaging 11 days each. The most recent, in Sep 2026, was a unplanned outage lasting 6 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, Dresden 2 takes about 5 days to climb from first power back to full power. That average is drawn from 14 startups on record, and the most recent took 4 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 Nov 19, 2025

59.3% remaining 8.1 FPD margin
Dresden 2 has an estimated 59.3% of its fuel left. Across its last 13 cycles, it has refueled with an average of 4.2% remaining.
Avg refuel: 4.2% Avg refuel (3yr): 1.0% Deepest burn: 0.0% (2011-11 → 2013-11) Most margin: 16.5% (2003-11 → 2005-10)
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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, Dresden 2 has run at about 92.9% of its rated capacity. Across the last 12 reported months it averaged 87.5%. 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 Dresden 2, 41 in all since 1999. Of those, 14 were scheduled refueling outages and 27 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 # 58436
2026-09-04 2026-09-09 6 291d - -
Scheduled D2R29
2025-10-27 2025-11-17 22 712d 2025-10-27 0d
Scheduled D2R28
2023-10-30 2023-11-15 17 186d 2023-10-30 0d
Unscheduled
2023-04-26 2023-04-27 2 287d - -
Scram # 55988
2022-07-13 2022-07-13 1 234d - -
Scheduled D2R27
2021-11-08 2021-11-21 14 176d 2021-11-01 +7d
Unscheduled
2021-05-12 2021-05-16 5 495d - -
Unscheduled
2019-12-28 2020-01-03 7 44d - -
Scheduled D2R26
2019-10-28 2019-11-14 18 170d 2019-10-30 -2d
Scram # 54054
2019-05-10 2019-05-11 2 540d - -
Scheduled D2R25
2017-10-30 2017-11-16 18 711d 2017-10-30 0d
Scheduled D2R24
2015-11-02 2015-11-19 18 264d 2015-11-02 0d
Scram # 50792
2015-02-07 2015-02-11 5 23d - -
Scram # 50733
2015-01-14 2015-01-15 2 255d - -
Scram # 50085
2014-05-04 2014-05-04 1 9d - -
Scram # 50030
2014-04-13 2014-04-25 13 136d - -
Scheduled D2R23
2013-11-11 2013-11-28 18 433d 2013-11-11 0d
Unscheduled
2012-08-31 2012-09-04 5 296d - -
Scheduled D2R22
2011-10-17 2011-11-09 24 685d 2011-10-17 0d
Scheduled D2R21
2009-11-02 2009-12-01 30 399d 2009-11-02 0d
Unscheduled
2008-09-25 2008-09-29 5 312d - -
Scheduled D2R20
2007-10-29 2007-11-18 21 175d 2007-10-27 +2d
Unscheduled
2007-05-05 2007-05-07 3 161d - -
Unscheduled
2006-11-17 2006-11-25 9 135d - -
Unscheduled
2006-07-04 2006-07-05 2 227d - -
Scheduled D2R19
2005-10-31 2005-11-19 20 48d 2005-10-30 +1d
Unscheduled
2005-08-31 2005-09-13 14 157d - -
Unscheduled
2005-03-25 2005-03-27 3 104d - -
Unscheduled
2004-11-03 2004-12-11 39 41d - -
Unscheduled
2004-09-19 2004-09-23 5 31d - -
Unscheduled
2004-08-15 2004-08-19 5 98d - -
Unscheduled
2004-04-29 2004-05-09 11 2d - -
Unscheduled
2004-04-25 2004-04-27 3 135d - -
Unscheduled
2003-12-12 2003-12-12 1 33d - -
Scheduled D2R18
2003-10-15 2003-11-09 26 14d 2003-10-15 0d
Unscheduled
2003-10-01 2003-10-01 1 692d - -
Scheduled D2R17
2001-10-21 2001-11-08 19 43d 2001-10-21 0d
Unscheduled
2001-09-02 2001-09-08 7 149d - -
Unscheduled
2001-04-04 2001-04-06 3 124d - -
Unscheduled
2000-12-01 2000-12-01 1 402d - -
Scheduled D2R16
1999-10-02 1999-10-26 25 - 1999-10-02 0d
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