U.S. Nuclear Power Output Slips as Exelon Slows Summer Reactor

U.S. nuclear-power output slipped for a second day as Scana Corp. slowed the Summer reactor in South Carolina, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said.

Power generation nationwide fell 115 megawatts, or 0.2 percent, from yesterday to 76,155 megawatts, or 75 percent of capacity, according to an NRC report today and data compiled by Bloomberg. Twenty-four of the nation’s 104 reactors were offline.