Indian Point 3 - Status & History

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

Decommissioned

Permanently shut down on 2021-04-30. 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: 2021-04-30).
Shut Down
2021-04-30
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Longest recorded period of continuous operation between outages (2007-04-27 to 2009-03-11).
684
Record Run
days
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Breaker-to-Breaker runs — continuous operation exceeding the cycle-adjusted threshold (623 days for this 24-month cycle 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).
91%
Capacity Factor
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Total number of scheduled refueling outages detected in the historical data. D&D shutdown period excluded.
11
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.
5.7
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.
93.8%
Fuel Utilization
lifetime avg
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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

Indian Point 3 has 45 outages plotted here, averaging 11 days each. The most recent, in Mar 2019, was a scheduled refueling outage lasting 29 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, Indian Point 3 runs about 712 days, or roughly 23 months, per cycle. That average comes from 10 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, Indian Point 3 takes about 6 days to climb from first power back to full power. That average is drawn from 11 startups on record, and the most recent took 4 days.
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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, Indian Point 3 has run at about 91% of its rated capacity. Across the last 12 reported months it averaged 56.6%. 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 Indian Point 3, 46 in all since 1999. Of those, 12 were scheduled refueling outages and 34 were unplanned or forced. The typical outage lasted about 14 days. Where the Scheduled column shows (Model), the date is a NukeWorker projection because the utility had not published one.
Scheduled SGR/Major
2021-05-01 Decommissioned 1 (D&D) 754d 2021-03-09 +53d
Scheduled
2019-03-11 2019-04-08 29 169d 2019-03-10 +1d
Scram # 53611
2018-09-19 2018-09-23 5 3d - -
Unscheduled
2018-09-08 2018-09-16 9 193d - -
Scram # 53216
2018-02-16 2018-02-27 12 100d - -
Scram # 53052
2017-11-04 2017-11-08 5 136d - -
Unscheduled
2017-06-12 2017-06-21 10 26d - -
Scheduled SGR/Major
2017-03-13 2017-05-17 66 453d 2017-03-05 +8d
Scram # 51606
2015-12-15 2015-12-16 2 81d - -
Unscheduled
2015-09-15 2015-09-25 11 91d - -
Scram # 51156
2015-06-16 2015-06-16 1 22d - -
Scram # 51060
2015-05-10 2015-05-25 16 47d - -
Scheduled
2015-03-02 2015-03-24 23 199d 2015-02-22 +8d
Scram # 50361
2014-08-14 2014-08-15 2 219d - -
Scram # 49698
2014-01-07 2014-01-07 1 160d - -
Unscheduled
2013-07-30 2013-07-31 2 123d - -
Scheduled
2013-03-04 2013-03-29 26 123d 2013-03-12 -8d
Scram # 48454
2012-10-30 2012-11-01 3 202d - -
Unscheduled
2012-04-11 2012-04-11 1 369d - -
Scheduled
2011-03-09 2011-04-08 31 13d 2011-03-07 +2d
Unscheduled
2011-02-23 2011-02-24 2 165d - -
Unscheduled
2010-09-10 2010-09-11 2 378d - -
Unscheduled
2009-08-28 2009-08-28 1 16d - -
Unscheduled
2009-08-11 2009-08-12 2 69d - -
Unscheduled
2009-06-01 2009-06-03 3 3d - -
Unscheduled
2009-05-29 2009-05-29 1 14d - -
Unscheduled
2009-05-15 2009-05-15 1 31d - -
Scheduled
2009-03-11 2009-04-14 35 684d 2009-03-10 +1d
Scheduled
2007-04-07 2007-04-27 21 8d 2007-04-06 +1d
Unscheduled
2007-03-07 2007-03-30 24 243d - -
Unscheduled
2006-07-06 2006-07-07 2 274d - -
Unscheduled
2005-10-02 2005-10-05 4 148d - -
Unscheduled
2005-05-07 2005-05-07 1 31d - -
Scheduled
2005-03-12 2005-04-06 26 569d 2005-03-11 +1d
Unscheduled
2003-08-15 2003-08-21 7 50d - -
Unscheduled
2003-06-23 2003-06-26 4 54d - -
Unscheduled
2003-04-29 2003-04-30 2 7d - -
Scheduled
2003-03-29 2003-04-22 25 74d 2003-03-29 0d
Unscheduled
2003-01-14 2003-01-14 1 55d - -
Unscheduled
2002-11-17 2002-11-20 4 543d - -
Scheduled
2001-04-28 2001-05-23 26 184d 2001-04-28 0d
Unscheduled
2000-10-26 2000-10-26 1 138d - -
Unscheduled
2000-06-10 2000-06-10 1 234d - -
Scheduled
1999-09-11 1999-10-20 40 29d 1999-09-11 0d
Unscheduled
1999-08-13 1999-08-13 1 156d - -
Unscheduled
1999-03-10 1999-03-10 1 - - -
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