Point Beach 2 - Status & History

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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 Mar 6, 2026Coastdown: Mar 7, 2026 to Mar 13, 2026Refueling Outage (U2R41): Mar 14, 2026 to Apr 10, 2026U2R41Power Ascension: Apr 11, 2026 to Apr 15, 2026Online: Apr 16, 2026 to Sep 12, 2026Today
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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).
155
Current Run
days ✔
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Longest recorded period of continuous operation between outages (2023-04-03 to 2024-10-12).
558
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.
11
B2B Runs
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Lifetime capacity factor: average power level across all recorded days (100% = always at full power).
90.7%
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.
10.04 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.
18
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.
4.7
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.
99.9%
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: 80/100 (#10/93)2022: 83/100 (#8/92)2023: 83/100 (#7/92)2024: 82/100 (#10/92)2025: 81/100 (#11/92)2026: 79/100 (#13/93) ↓ -2.8 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

Point Beach 2 has 33 outages plotted here, averaging 25 days each. The most recent, in Mar 2026, was a scheduled refueling outage lasting 28 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, Point Beach 2 takes about 5 days to climb from first power back to full power. That average is drawn from 18 startups on record, and the most recent took 5 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 Apr 13, 2026

69.6% remaining 0.4 FPD margin
Point Beach 2 has an estimated 69.6% of its fuel left. Across its last 17 cycles, it has refueled with an average of 2.5% remaining.
Avg refuel: 2.5% Avg refuel (3yr): 0.1% Deepest burn: 0.0% (2006-11 → 2008-04) Most margin: 12.7% (2009-12 → 2011-03)
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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, Point Beach 2 has run at about 90.7% of its rated capacity. Across the last 12 reported months it averaged 91.5%. 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 Point Beach 2, 33 in all since 1999. Of those, 18 were scheduled refueling outages and 15 were unplanned or forced. The typical outage lasted about 25 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 U2R41
2026-03-14 2026-04-10 28 499d 2026-03-07 +7d
Scheduled U2R40
2024-10-12 2024-10-31 20 558d 2024-10-12 0d
Scheduled U2R39
2023-03-11 2023-04-03 24 494d 2023-03-11 0d
Scheduled U2R38
2021-10-09 2021-11-02 25 553d 2021-10-09 0d
Scheduled U2R37
2020-03-14 2020-04-04 22 506d 2020-03-14 0d
Scheduled U2R36
2018-10-06 2018-10-25 20 541d 2018-10-08 -2d
Scheduled U2R35
2017-03-18 2017-04-13 27 505d 2017-03-18 0d
Scheduled U2R34
2015-10-03 2015-10-30 28 404d 2015-10-03 0d
Unscheduled
2014-08-25 2014-08-25 1 131d - -
Scheduled U2R33
2014-03-17 2014-04-16 31 472d 2014-03-17 0d
Scheduled U2R32
2012-11-01 2012-11-30 30 122d 2012-11-01 0d
Scram # 48053
2012-06-28 2012-07-02 5 379d - -
Scheduled U2R31SGR/Major
2011-03-01 2011-06-15 107 70d 2011-03-01 0d
Unscheduled
2010-12-14 2010-12-21 8 157d - -
Unscheduled
2010-07-10 2010-07-10 1 20d - -
Unscheduled
2010-06-20 2010-06-20 1 197d - -
Scheduled U2R30
2009-10-15 2009-12-05 52 525d 2009-10-05 +10d
Scheduled U2R29
2008-04-06 2008-05-08 33 507d 2008-03-21 +16d
Scheduled U2R28
2006-10-16 2006-11-16 32 465d 2006-10-15 +1d
Scheduled U2R27SGR/Major
2005-04-02 2005-07-08 98 130d 2005-04-01 +1d
Unscheduled
2004-11-20 2004-11-23 4 186d - -
Unscheduled
2004-05-16 2004-05-18 3 181d - -
Scheduled U2R26
2003-10-04 2003-11-17 45 84d 2003-10-04 0d
Unscheduled
2003-07-11 2003-07-12 2 94d - -
Unscheduled
2003-04-06 2003-04-08 3 328d - -
Scheduled U2R25
2002-04-13 2002-05-13 31 47d 2002-04-13 0d
Unscheduled
2002-02-23 2002-02-25 3 239d - -
Unscheduled
2001-06-28 2001-06-29 2 140d - -
Unscheduled
2001-02-07 2001-02-08 2 48d - -
Unscheduled
2000-12-21 2000-12-21 1 6d - -
Scheduled U2R24SGR/Major
2000-10-14 2000-12-15 63 159d 2000-10-14 0d
Unscheduled
2000-05-05 2000-05-08 4 434d - -
Unscheduled
1999-01-01 1999-02-26 57 - - -
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