Sequoyah 1 - 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) 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 Oct 3, 2025Refueling Outage (U1R27): Oct 4, 2025 to Dec 1, 2025U1R27Power Ascension: Dec 2, 2025 to Dec 8, 2025Online: Dec 9, 2025 to Feb 4, 2026Reduced Power: Feb 5, 2026 to Feb 8, 2026Online: Feb 9, 2026 to Sep 12, 2026Today
OnlineReduced PowerPower AscensionRefueling Outage
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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
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Days of continuous operation since the last outage ended. Clean run (no forced outages since last refueling).
285
Current Run
days ✔
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Longest recorded period of continuous operation between outages (2012-03-30 to 2013-10-14).
563
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.
6
B2B Runs
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Lifetime capacity factor: average power level across all recorded days (100% = always at full power).
89.5%
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.
17.87 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.
4.3
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.
92.7%
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: 33/100 (#73/93)2022: 29/100 (#74/92)2023: 30/100 (#78/92)2024: 27/100 (#83/92)2025: 19/100 (#88/92)2026: 25/100 (#84/93) ↑ +6.2 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

Sequoyah 1 has 50 outages plotted here, averaging 18 days each. The most recent, in Oct 2025, was a scheduled refueling outage lasting 59 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, Sequoyah 1 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 7 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 Dec 4, 2025

47.1% remaining 5.7 FPD margin
Sequoyah 1 has an estimated 47.1% of its fuel left. Across its last 17 cycles, it has refueled with an average of 6.0% remaining.
Avg refuel: 6.0% Avg refuel (3yr): 7.3% Deepest burn: 0.0% (2000-03 → 2001-10) Most margin: 16.2% (2017-01 → 2018-04)
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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, Sequoyah 1 has run at about 89.5% of its rated capacity. Across the last 12 reported months it averaged 81.6%. 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 Sequoyah 1, 50 in all since 2000. 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.
Scheduled U1R27
2025-10-04 2025-12-01 59 100d 2025-10-03 +1d
Scram # 57778
2025-06-24 2025-06-26 3 248d - -
Scram # 57351
2024-09-30 2024-10-19 20 30d - -
Scram # 57285
2024-08-24 2024-08-31 8 116d - -
Scheduled U1R26
2024-03-23 2024-04-30 39 486d 2024-03-29 -6d
Scheduled U1R25
2022-10-22 2022-11-23 33 440d 2022-10-22 0d
Unscheduled
2021-08-06 2021-08-08 3 69d - -
Scram # 55272
2021-05-25 2021-05-29 5 15d - -
Scheduled U1R24
2021-04-10 2021-05-10 31 331d 2021-04-10 0d
Scram # 54708
2020-05-13 2020-05-14 2 169d - -
Scheduled U1R23
2019-10-12 2019-11-26 46 45d 2019-09-29 +13d
Scram # 54242
2019-08-27 2019-08-28 2 133d - -
Scram # 53999
2019-04-14 2019-04-16 3 122d - -
Unscheduled
2018-12-10 2018-12-13 4 218d - -
Scheduled U1R22
2018-04-07 2018-05-06 30 180d 2018-04-07 0d
Unscheduled
2017-10-02 2017-10-09 8 275d - -
Scheduled U1R21
2016-11-26 2016-12-31 36 286d 2016-11-05 +21d
Unscheduled
2015-12-27 2016-02-14 50 33d - -
Scram # 51559
2015-11-24 2015-11-24 1 66d - -
Scram # 51392
2015-09-14 2015-09-19 6 31d - -
Unscheduled
2015-08-09 2015-08-14 6 9d - -
Unscheduled
2015-07-31 2015-07-31 1 2d - -
Scram # 51265
2015-07-28 2015-07-29 2 2d - -
Scram # 51265
2015-07-25 2015-07-26 2 71d - -
Scheduled U1R20
2015-04-11 2015-05-15 35 28d 2015-04-13 -2d
Scram # 50878
2015-03-12 2015-03-14 3 477d - -
Scheduled U1R19
2013-10-14 2013-11-20 38 563d 2013-10-14 0d
Scheduled U1R18
2012-02-27 2012-03-30 33 191d 2012-02-27 0d
Scram # 47169
2011-08-19 2011-08-20 2 29d - -
Scram # 47081
2011-07-21 2011-07-21 1 24d - -
Scram # 46991
2011-06-27 2011-06-27 1 186d - -
Unscheduled
2010-12-20 2010-12-23 4 33d - -
Unscheduled
2010-11-17 2010-11-17 1 2d - -
Scheduled U1R17
2010-10-02 2010-11-15 45 512d 2010-10-01 +1d
Unscheduled
2009-05-07 2009-05-08 2 7d - -
Unscheduled
2009-04-29 2009-04-30 2 2d - -
Scheduled U1R16
2009-03-27 2009-04-27 32 434d 2009-03-29 -2d
Unscheduled
2008-01-17 2008-01-18 2 63d - -
Scheduled U1R15
2007-10-04 2007-11-15 43 508d 2007-09-30 +4d
Scheduled U1R14
2006-04-10 2006-05-14 35 364d 2006-04-09 +1d
Unscheduled
2005-04-10 2005-04-11 2 142d - -
Scheduled U1R13
2004-10-25 2004-11-19 26 220d 2004-10-25 0d
Unscheduled
2004-03-15 2004-03-19 5 197d - -
Unscheduled
2003-08-29 2003-08-31 3 76d - -
Scheduled U1R12SGR/Major
2003-03-17 2003-06-14 90 481d 2003-03-17 0d
Scheduled U1R11
2001-10-22 2001-11-21 31 343d 2001-10-22 0d
Unscheduled
2000-10-07 2000-11-13 38 2d - -
Unscheduled
2000-09-26 2000-10-05 10 189d - -
Unscheduled Startup Hold
2000-03-21 2000-03-21 1 4d - -
Scheduled U1R10
2000-02-23 2000-03-17 24 - 2000-02-23 0d
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