Each year this survey attempts to prepare readers for the moment- which still seems inevitable-when the capacity factor of U.S. power reactors stops rising. Leveling off isn't bad, we keep saying. Maintaining the same high level of performance would be as formidable an accomplishment as reaching that level had been-and so on. Each year, too, the numbers have shown that the fleet somehow managed to continue to improve, and so nobody needs to be consoled. Yes, it has happened again this time.
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