Fort Calhoun

Decommissioned

Omaha Public Power District·Blair, NE·PWR·476 MWe

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Decommissioned

Permanently shut down on 2016-10-24. Outage statistics below reflect only the operating period. The final shutdown is not counted as an outage.
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This unit is permanently shut down (shutdown date: 2016-10-24).
Shut Down
2016-10-24
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Longest recorded period of continuous operation between outages (2011-02-05 to 2014-01-10).
1,070
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.
2
B2B Runs
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Lifetime capacity factor: average power level across all recorded days (100% = always at full power).
73.5%
Capacity Factor
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Total number of scheduled refueling outages detected in the historical data. D&D shutdown period excluded.
8
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.
7.3
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.
97.5%
Fuel Utilization
lifetime avg

Outage Record

Outage Days by Year

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Total days spent in outage each year, split by scheduled refueling (blue) and forced/unplanned (red). Lower totals indicate better reliability and outage execution. Hover for details.
Across its recorded history, Fort Calhoun has spent 498 days in scheduled refueling outages and 144 days in forced or unplanned outages. Taller bars mark the years with the most downtime.
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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

Fort Calhoun has 23 outages plotted here, averaging 25 days each. The most recent, in Jun 2016, was a unplanned outage lasting 1 day.
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Scheduled refueling outage durations over time. Green bars are at or below this unit's average, amber up to 30% above it, red beyond that. The dashed line is the average. Shorter outages mean better execution.

Refueling Duration Trend

Fort Calhoun has completed 8 scheduled refueling outages on record, averaging 55 days each. The most recent, in Apr 2015, ran 58 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, Fort Calhoun takes about 6 days to climb from first power back to full power. That average is drawn from 9 startups on record, and the most recent took 4 days.
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Daily reactor power over the 120 days before each scheduled refueling outage, one line per refueling, lined up on the day the outage began. A coastdown is the slow decline as the fuel runs out near the end of a cycle. The highlighted line is the most recent refueling and fainter lines are older. Counts and medians cover coastdowns of a week or longer. A shutdown straight from full power, with no decline ahead of it, is what a forced outage looks like.

Coastdown Before Refueling

0 of 9 refuelings
Fort Calhoun has not coasted down for a week or longer before any of its 9 refuelings on record. It holds power until the shutdown itself.
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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, Fort Calhoun has run at about 73.5% of its rated capacity. Across the last 12 reported months it averaged 79.1%. On the chart, green stretches near the top are full-power running, amber marks reduced power (50 to 89%), and red drops toward zero are outages.

Outage History & Daily Power Log

This table logs every recorded outage for Fort Calhoun, 25 in all since 1999. Of those, 10 were scheduled refueling outages and 15 were unplanned or forced. The typical outage lasted about 65 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
Scheduled FC1R28
2016-10-25 Decommissioned 1 (D&D) 124d 2016-10-01 +24d
Scram # 52033 Auto
2016-06-23 2016-06-23 1 330d - -
Unscheduled
2015-07-21 2015-07-29 9 43d - -
Scheduled FC1R27
2015-04-12 2015-06-08 58 113d 2015-04-13 -1d
Scram # 50688 Auto
2014-12-18 2014-12-20 3 274d - -
Scram # 49926 Auto
2014-03-18 2014-03-19 2 65d - -
Scram # 49717 Manual
2014-01-10 2014-01-12 3 23d - -
Scheduled FC1R26Ext. Shutdown
2011-04-10 2013-12-18 984 64d 2011-04-10 0d
Unscheduled
2011-02-05 2011-02-05 1 42d - -
Unscheduled
2010-12-24 2010-12-25 2 256d - -
Unscheduled
2010-04-09 2010-04-12 4 112d - -
Scheduled FC1R25
2009-11-01 2009-12-18 48 503d 2009-10-11 +21d
Scheduled FC1R24
2008-04-20 2008-06-16 58 29d 2008-04-19 +1d
Unscheduled
2008-03-16 2008-03-22 7 469d - -
Scheduled FC1R23
2006-09-10 2006-12-03 85 127d 2006-09-09 +1d
Unscheduled
2006-04-30 2006-05-06 7 322d - -
Unscheduled
2005-06-05 2005-06-12 8 6d - -
Scheduled FC1R22
2005-02-27 2005-05-30 93 327d 2005-02-26 +1d
Unscheduled
2004-03-27 2004-04-06 11 150d - -
Scheduled FC1R21
2003-09-13 2003-10-29 47 469d 2003-09-13 0d
Scheduled FC1R20
2002-05-04 2002-06-01 29 371d 2002-05-04 0d
Unscheduled
2001-03-16 2001-04-28 44 131d - -
Scheduled FC1R19
2000-10-14 2000-11-05 23 195d 2000-10-14 0d
Unscheduled
2000-04-01 2000-04-02 2 143d - -
Unscheduled
1999-10-02 1999-11-10 40 - - -
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