Turkey Point 4 - 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.
Aug2025SepOctNovDecJan2026FebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctOnline: Jul 11, 2025 to Jan 15, 2026Reduced Power: Jan 16, 2026Online: Jan 17, 2026 to Jul 11, 2026Scheduled Outage (Scheduled): Sep 13, 2026, about 25 daysScheduledToday
OnlineReduced PowerScheduled (published)
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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.
56
Excellence
#30 of 93 ↑5
Mid Quartile
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Days of continuous operation since the last outage ended. Clean run (no forced outages since last refueling).
381
Current Run
days ✔
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Longest recorded period of continuous operation between outages (2002-04-07 to 2003-10-06).
547
Record Run
days
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Breaker-to-Breaker runs — continuous operation exceeding the cycle-adjusted threshold (456 days for this 18-month cycle unit) with no trips to 0% power.
4
B2B Runs
83% toward B2B (379/456d)
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Lifetime capacity factor: average power level across all recorded days (100% = always at full power).
89.6%
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.
13.06 TWh
Net Generation
EIA-923 · 12 mo to 2026-04 · 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.
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.
98.7%
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
56/100
Mid Quartile · #30/93
5-year window

Turkey Point 4 ranks #30 of 93 active US units on NukeWorker's Operational Excellence Score over the 5-year window. Strongest area: Capacity Factor (76th percentile). Weakest: B2B Avg Streak (18th percentile).

Reliability
50
Capacity factor + Forced outages + B2B streaks
Efficiency
48
Fuel utilization + Refuel duration
Discipline
70
Startup duration + Scram count
Cohort Rankings apples-to-apples comparison within each peer group
Reactor type: #17 of 61 PWR
Containment: #16 of 47 Dry Ambient (PWR)
Cycle length: #12 of 53 18-month cycle
Fleet rank above (30 of 93) compares all active US units; cohort ranks compare only against units sharing this property.
Per-dimension breakdown (7 metrics)
Capacity Factor 76th
94.3% (higher better, Reliability)
Forced Outage Days/yr 55th
2.8d (lower better, Reliability)
B2B Avg Streak 18th
500d (higher better, Reliability)
Refuel Duration 48th
33d (lower better, Efficiency)
Scrams (5-year) 70th
0.2/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: 49/100 (#52/93)2022: 59/100 (#32/92)2023: 49/100 (#46/92)2024: 48/100 (#49/93)2025: 52/100 (#35/93)2026: 56/100 (#30/93) ↑ +4.0 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

Turkey Point 4 has 50 outages plotted here, averaging 18 days each. The most recent, in Jun 2025, was a unplanned outage lasting 4 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, Turkey Point 4 runs about 558 days, or roughly 18 months, per cycle. That average comes from 17 completed cycles, the most recent lasting 518 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, Turkey Point 4 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 4, 2025

4.7% remaining 462 / 478 days 6.3 FPD margin
Turkey Point 4 is 462 days into its current fuel cycle with an estimated 4.7% of its fuel left. This cycle is set up to run about 478 days. Across its last 17 cycles, it has refueled with an average of 1.0% remaining.
Avg refuel: 1.0% Avg refuel (3yr): 1.3% Deepest burn: 0.0% (1999-04 → 2000-09) Most margin: 5.6% (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, Turkey Point 4 has run at about 89.6% of its rated capacity. Across the last 12 reported months it averaged 100.0%. 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 Turkey Point 4, 50 in all since 1999. Of those, 18 were scheduled refueling outages and 32 were unplanned or forced. The typical outage lasted about 18 days. Where the Scheduled column shows (Model), the date is a NukeWorker projection because the utility had not published one.
Scram # 57773
2025-06-22 2025-06-25 4 80d - -
Scheduled
2025-03-01 2025-04-03 34 477d 2025-03-15 -14d
Unscheduled
2023-11-05 2023-11-10 6 2d - -
Scheduled
2023-09-30 2023-11-03 35 297d 2023-09-30 0d
Unscheduled
2022-12-07 2022-12-07 1 241d - -
Scheduled
2022-03-12 2022-04-10 30 483d 2022-03-14 -2d
Scheduled
2020-10-03 2020-11-14 43 75d 2020-10-05 -2d
Scram # 54762
2020-07-06 2020-07-20 15 454d - -
Scheduled
2019-03-11 2019-04-09 30 497d 2019-03-11 0d
Scheduled
2017-10-04 2017-10-30 27 18d 2017-10-02 +2d
Scram # 52960
2017-09-11 2017-09-16 6 502d - -
Scheduled
2016-03-29 2016-04-27 30 321d 2016-03-28 +1d
Scram # 51065
2015-05-12 2015-05-13 2 2d - -
Unscheduled
2015-05-08 2015-05-10 3 155d - -
Unscheduled
2014-12-04 2014-12-04 1 2d - -
Unscheduled
2014-12-01 2014-12-02 2 41d - -
Scheduled
2014-09-22 2014-10-21 30 117d 2014-09-22 0d
Scram # 50140
2014-05-26 2014-05-28 3 401d - -
Scram # 48948
2013-04-20 2013-04-20 1 14d - -
Scheduled SGR/Major
2012-11-05 2013-04-06 153 339d 2012-11-05 0d
Unscheduled
2011-11-25 2011-12-02 8 194d - -
Unscheduled
2011-05-06 2011-05-15 10 6d - -
Scheduled
2011-03-21 2011-04-30 41 95d 2011-03-19 +2d
Unscheduled
2010-12-10 2010-12-16 7 77d - -
Unscheduled
2010-09-22 2010-09-24 3 13d - -
Unscheduled
2010-09-09 2010-09-09 1 239d - -
Unscheduled
2010-01-12 2010-01-13 2 41d - -
Scheduled
2009-10-26 2009-12-02 38 378d 2009-10-25 +1d
Unscheduled
2008-10-11 2008-10-13 3 49d - -
Unscheduled
2008-08-16 2008-08-23 8 99d - -
Scheduled
2008-03-31 2008-05-09 40 30d 2008-03-30 +1d
Unscheduled
2008-02-27 2008-03-01 4 215d - -
Unscheduled
2007-07-23 2007-07-27 5 164d - -
Unscheduled
2007-02-08 2007-02-09 2 61d - -
Scheduled
2006-10-30 2006-12-09 41 162d 2006-10-30 0d
Unscheduled
2006-05-19 2006-05-21 3 88d - -
Unscheduled
2006-02-20 2006-02-20 1 101d - -
Unscheduled
2005-10-25 2005-11-11 18 101d - -
Unscheduled
2005-07-16 2005-07-16 1 4d - -
Unscheduled
2005-06-27 2005-07-12 16 15d - -
Scheduled
2005-04-11 2005-06-12 63 18d 2005-04-10 +1d
Unscheduled
2005-03-22 2005-03-24 3 86d - -
Unscheduled
2004-12-26 2004-12-26 1 223d - -
Unscheduled
2004-05-15 2004-05-17 3 193d - -
Scheduled
2003-10-06 2003-11-04 30 547d 2003-10-06 0d
Scheduled
2002-03-23 2002-04-07 16 416d 2002-03-23 0d
Unscheduled
2001-01-26 2001-01-31 6 96d - -
Scheduled
2000-09-25 2000-10-22 28 243d 2000-09-25 0d
Unscheduled
2000-01-25 2000-01-26 2 293d - -
Scheduled
1999-03-15 1999-04-07 24 - 1999-03-15 0d
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