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For March 2008, the average net capacity factor was 87.4 percent. This figure is 1.3 percentage points higher than March 2007. Monthly nuclear generation was 65.3 billion kilowatt-hours in March 2008, higher than the 64.3 bkWh in March 2007.
For 2008, year-to-date nuclear generation was 200.8 billion kilowatt-hours, compared to 203.5 bkWh in 2007 (1.3 percent decrease).
Since the start of 2008, thirty-three reactors have either finished or are undergoing refueling outages. In 2007, twenty-eight reactors had either finished or were in refueling outages at the same time last year.
The average refueling duration so far for 2008 is 33.5 days. The average refueling duration for 2007 at the same time last year was 38.8 days.

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