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Browns Ferry 2

TVA AL ·Tennessee Valley Authority ·1,208 MW ·BWR
100.0%
At full power
as of Sep 15, 2026

Right Now

Updated every morning from the NRC Daily Power Reactor Status Report.
Power level
100.0%
At full power
MW off line
0
of 1,208 MW installed
Typical coastdown
22 days
7 observed
Operational Excellence
███
Tells you whether this unit's published dates hold · Individual

Operational Excellence

Individual

One 0-100 score for how well this unit actually runs, computed from 27 years of daily reactor records: capacity factor, forced-outage days, breaker-to-breaker streak, fuel utilization, refuel duration, startup speed and scram rate. Sub-scores for reliability, efficiency and discipline, and its rank against units of the same reactor type and containment, and against units on a comparable fuel cycle.

Operating Timeline

Individual

Every outage this unit has taken, year by year, color-coded refuel against forced, with each refueling outage carrying its own RFO designator.

See the whole operating record Individual · $165/mo

Twelve years of this unit's outages on one timeline, so a published date can be read against what actually happened.

  • Refuel vs forced vs scram, color-coded
  • RFO designators on every refueling outage
  • Duration and coastdown on hover

Outage Record

Every outage, with what kind it was Individual · $165/mo

Refueling outages separated from forced ones, the distinction that decides whether a date is worth believing.

  • Start, end and duration
  • Refuel / forced / scram classification
  • RFO designator and cycle number
  • Coastdown and startup days

If It Trips

Pro

Nobody schedules a scram. When one happens the only question on a desk is how long the megawatts are gone, and that is a number no incumbent publishes. This is our projection for Browns Ferry 2, scored against this unit's own trip history.

Days down if it trips
███
Sizes the supply gap the moment a unit drops · Pro
How good that call is
███
Scored on this unit's own trips, not the fleet average · Pro
Trips scored
███
Megawatts at stake
1,208 MW
installed capacity
Know the supply gap before the market does Pro · $499/mo

A trip is the one supply event nobody sees coming. The projection above says how long it lasts, and we publish how close that call has landed on this unit's own history.

  • Days down per unit if it trips
  • Scored against each unit's own trips
  • Projected outage overrun
  • MW-days the market has not priced

Breaker-to-Breaker Streak

Individual

How long this unit has run continuously since its last refueling outage without an unplanned shutdown, the industry's own badge of a well-run reactor, plus its completed streak history, whether it is a B2B champion, and how many days it has gone without a trip.

Reactor Trips

Individual

Every reactor trip the NRC has recorded for this unit, each with its event number and the licensee's own description.

Read the trip history Individual · $165/mo

Every scram the NRC has recorded for this unit, with the event notification behind it.

Plant Record

NRC and EIA filings
Commercial operation
Mar 1975
52 years in service
License expires
Jun 2054
28 years left
License renewed
2025
already extended once
Reactor supplier
GE 4
BWR-MARK 1
Thermal rating
3,952 MWt
licensed thermal power
NRC docket
05000260
license DPR-52
Architect engineer
TVA
designed the plant
Constructor
TVA
built the plant

Capacity over time

Net summer capability as filed with EIA. This unit is +104 MW (+9.4%) against its earliest record, across 1 step large enough to be a real uprate. Smaller moves are EIA restating the same machine, not megawatts being added.

FromToNet summer MWChangeWhat it was
Jan 2021 current 1,207.7 -51.0 Restatement
Apr 2019 Dec 2020 1,258.7 +155.0 Uprate 14.0%
Mar 1975 Mar 2019 1,103.7 First record
License and docket data are public NRC filings; capacity history is EIA-860M. Every line here is verifiable against the source, which is the point: nothing on this panel is our opinion. See the whole fleet on the fleet lifecycle board.

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