North Anna 1 - Status & History

Comprehensive reactor performance metrics, cycle analysis, and historical outage data.
Data refreshed 27 min ago Rx Status: Sep 17, 2026 at 7:49 AM (M-F)

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.
Oct2025NovDecJan2026FebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctRefueling Outage: Sep 18, 2025 to Oct 18, 2025Power Ascension: Oct 19, 2025 to Oct 21, 2025Scram: Oct 22, 2025 to Oct 24, 2025Power Ascension: Oct 25, 2025 to Oct 27, 2025Online: Oct 28, 2025 to Sep 18, 2026Scram (reactor trip): Oct 21, 2025Today
OnlinePower AscensionRefueling OutageScramScram (reactor trip)
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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 (Started 2025-10-24). Clean run (no forced outages since last refueling).
329
Current Run
days ✔
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Longest recorded period of continuous operation between outages (2019-09-30 to 2021-03-14).
531
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.
9
B2B Runs
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Lifetime capacity factor: average power level across all recorded days (100% = always at full power).
91.2%
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.
15.85 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 2000
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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
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.
99.7%
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 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: 48/100 (#53/93)2022: 39/100 (#62/92)2023: 40/100 (#63/92)2024: 34/100 (#73/92)2025: 22/100 (#83/92)2026: 34/100 (#73/93) ↑ +11.6 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

North Anna 1 has 38 outages plotted here, averaging 21 days each. The most recent, in Oct 2025, was a unplanned outage lasting 3 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, North Anna 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 8 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 Oct 19, 2025

36.0% remaining 4.5 FPD margin
North Anna 1 has an estimated 36.0% of its fuel left. Across its last 17 cycles, it has refueled with an average of 3.3% remaining.
Avg refuel: 3.3% Avg refuel (3yr): 0.3% Deepest burn: 0.0% (2009-04 → 2010-09) Most margin: 20.3% (2010-10 → 2012-03)
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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, North Anna 1 has run at about 91.2% of its rated capacity. Across the last 12 reported months it averaged 93.8%. 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 North Anna 1, 38 in all since 2000. Of those, 18 were scheduled refueling outages and 20 were unplanned or forced. The typical outage lasted about 21 days. Where the Scheduled column shows (Model), the date is a NukeWorker projection because the utility had not published one.
Scram # 57997
2025-10-22 2025-10-24 3 4d - -
Scheduled 1R31
2025-09-07 2025-10-18 42 464d 2025-09-01 +6d
Scram # 57148
2024-05-30 2024-05-31 2 54d - -
Scheduled 1R30
2024-03-03 2024-04-06 35 159d 2024-03-02 +1d
Unscheduled
2023-09-25 2023-09-26 2 334d - -
Scheduled 1R29
2022-09-21 2022-10-26 36 158d 2022-09-11 +10d
Scram # 55843
2022-04-15 2022-04-16 2 208d - -
Unscheduled
2021-09-12 2021-09-19 8 118d - -
Scram # 55239
2021-05-07 2021-05-17 11 15d - -
Scheduled 1R28
2021-03-14 2021-04-22 40 531d 2021-03-06 +8d
Scheduled 1R27
2019-09-08 2019-09-30 23 511d 2019-09-02 +6d
Scheduled 1R26
2018-03-11 2018-04-15 36 512d 2018-03-11 0d
Scheduled 1R25
2016-09-11 2016-10-15 35 526d 2016-09-11 0d
Scram # 50946
2015-04-02 2015-04-04 3 5d - -
Scheduled 1R24
2015-03-08 2015-03-28 21 8d 2015-03-08 0d
Scram # 50851
2015-02-27 2015-02-28 2 57d - -
Unscheduled
2014-12-23 2015-01-01 10 436d - -
Scram # 49429
2013-10-12 2013-10-13 2 2d - -
Scheduled 1R23
2013-09-08 2013-10-10 33 496d 2013-09-08 0d
Scheduled 1R22
2012-03-11 2012-04-30 51 119d 2012-03-11 0d
Scram # 47181
2011-08-24 2011-11-13 82 307d - -
Scheduled 1R21
2010-09-12 2010-10-21 40 56d 2010-09-12 0d
Unscheduled
2010-07-15 2010-07-18 4 259d - -
Unscheduled
2009-10-24 2009-10-29 6 205d - -
Scheduled 1R20
2009-03-08 2009-04-02 26 511d 2009-03-08 0d
Scheduled 1R19
2007-09-09 2007-10-14 36 248d 2007-09-09 0d
Unscheduled
2007-01-04 2007-01-04 1 49d - -
Unscheduled
2006-11-13 2006-11-16 4 218d - -
Scheduled 1R18
2006-03-12 2006-04-09 29 24d 2006-03-11 +1d
Unscheduled
2006-02-14 2006-02-16 3 496d - -
Scheduled 1R17
2004-09-12 2004-10-06 25 199d 2004-09-12 0d
Unscheduled
2004-02-21 2004-02-26 6 246d - -
Unscheduled
2003-06-12 2003-06-20 9 53d - -
Unscheduled
2003-04-20 2003-04-20 1 2d - -
Scheduled 1R16
2003-02-23 2003-04-18 55 502d 2003-02-23 0d
Scheduled 1R15
2001-09-09 2001-10-09 31 488d 2001-09-09 0d
Unscheduled
2000-05-08 2000-05-09 2 31d - -
Scheduled 1R14
2000-03-12 2000-04-07 27 - 2000-03-12 0d
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