Climbingfrom its highest point of the current summer season at 95.74% on July 22, totalU.S. nuclear plant availability edged higher early July 25 to 96.84% and was abovethe 94.87% recorded on the same day a year ago.

Workingto tug total output lower was a cut in output at Public Service Enterprise Group Inc.'s Salem 2 in New Jersey,which was trimmed to 14% as of early July 25, down from 28% on July 22.

Conversely,output at Tennessee Valley Authority'sWatts Bar 2 in Tennessee increased to 65% as of early July 25, up from 46% on July23.

Power production levels and impendingoutage dates are current at the time of publication and are subject to change. Fordetails of U.S. nuclear power plant operations, visit our NuclearStatus and Outage Report.