McGuire 1 - Status & History

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

Reactor Status Timeline

Forced Outage · Day 1 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.
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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. Has forced outage(s) since last refueling.
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Current Run
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Longest recorded period of continuous operation between outages (2020-10-20 to 2022-04-02).
529
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.
7
B2B Runs
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Lifetime capacity factor: average power level across all recorded days (100% = always at full power).
91.8%
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.
19 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.
19
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.
2.3
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: 63/100 (#29/93)2022: 55/100 (#41/92)2023: 54/100 (#39/92)2024: 60/100 (#25/92)2025: 55/100 (#31/92)2026: 56/100 (#30/93) Stable 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

McGuire 1 has 33 outages plotted here, averaging 22 days each. The most recent, in Sep 2026, was a scheduled refueling 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, McGuire 1 takes about 4 days to climb from first power back to full power. That average is drawn from 18 startups on record, and the most recent took 2 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, McGuire 1 has run at about 91.8% of its rated capacity. Across the last 12 reported months it averaged 92.2%. 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 McGuire 1, 33 in all since 1999. Of those, 19 were scheduled refueling outages and 14 were unplanned or forced. The typical outage lasted about 22 days. Where the Scheduled column shows (Model), the date is a NukeWorker projection because the utility had not published one.
Scheduled
2026-09-05 In Outage 6+ 246d 2026-09-05 0d
Scram # 58101
2025-12-30 2026-01-02 4 254d - -
Scheduled M1R30
2025-04-02 2025-04-20 19 526d 2025-03-29 +4d
Scheduled M1R29
2023-09-16 2023-10-24 39 496d 2023-09-16 0d
Scheduled M1R28
2022-04-02 2022-05-08 37 529d 2022-03-26 +7d
Scheduled M1R27
2020-09-19 2020-10-20 32 504d 2020-09-26 -7d
Scram # 54047
2019-05-04 2019-05-04 1 18d - -
Scheduled M1R26
2019-03-23 2019-04-16 25 399d 2019-03-23 0d
Scram # 53217
2018-02-17 2018-02-17 1 124d - -
Scheduled M1R25
2017-09-23 2017-10-16 24 525d 2017-09-23 0d
Scheduled M1R24
2016-03-19 2016-04-16 29 400d 2016-03-19 0d
Unscheduled
2015-02-07 2015-02-13 7 85d - -
Scheduled M1R23
2014-09-13 2014-11-14 63 302d 2014-09-13 0d
Scram # 49538
2013-11-15 2013-11-15 1 207d - -
Scheduled M1R22
2013-03-17 2013-04-22 37 22d 2013-03-16 +1d
Scram # 48775
2013-02-22 2013-02-23 2 497d - -
Scheduled M1R21
2011-09-18 2011-10-14 27 237d 2011-09-17 +1d
Scram # 46559
2011-01-21 2011-01-24 4 221d - -
Unscheduled
2010-06-13 2010-06-14 2 57d - -
Scheduled M1R20
2010-03-14 2010-04-17 35 487d 2010-03-13 +1d
Scheduled M1R19
2008-09-21 2008-11-12 53 84d 2008-09-20 +1d
Unscheduled
2008-06-27 2008-06-29 3 397d - -
Scheduled M1R18SGR/Major
2007-03-11 2007-05-27 78 448d 2007-03-10 +1d
Unscheduled
2005-12-17 2005-12-18 2 60d - -
Scheduled M1R17
2005-09-18 2005-10-18 31 312d 2005-09-17 +1d
Unscheduled
2004-10-19 2004-11-10 23 191d - -
Scheduled M1R16
2004-03-07 2004-04-11 36 515d 2004-03-06 +1d
Scheduled M1R15
2002-09-14 2002-10-09 26 192d 2002-09-14 0d
Unscheduled
2002-03-05 2002-03-06 2 323d - -
Scheduled M1R14
2001-03-10 2001-04-16 38 41d 2001-03-10 0d
Unscheduled
2001-01-24 2001-01-28 5 242d - -
Unscheduled
2000-05-26 2000-05-27 2 204d - -
Scheduled M1R13
1999-09-18 1999-11-04 48 - 1999-09-18 0d
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