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New laws offer nuclear industry incentives for existing power plant uprates
This year, the U.S. nuclear industry received a much-needed economic boost that could help preserve operating nuclear power plants and incentivize upgrades that extend their lifespan and power output.
Signed into law in 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act offers production tax credits (PTCs) for existing nuclear power plants and either PTCs or investment tax credits (ITCs) for new carbon-free generation. These credits could make power uprates—increasing the maximum power level at which a commercial plant may operate—a much more appealing option for utilities.
H. F. McFarlane, S. G. Carpenter, P. J. Collins, D. N. Olsen, S. B. Brumbach
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 87 | Number 3 | July 1984 | Pages 204-232
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE84-A17779
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Experimental programs to investigate the physics characteristics of heterogeneous liquid-metal fast breeder reactor cores have been conducted in the zero-power plutonium reactor critical facility over a period of ∼ 5 yr. Previous experiments on conventional homogeneous cores provided appropriate benchmark data against which to judge the heterogeneous core results. For a heterogeneous reactor of the Clinch River Breeder Reactor size, both the physics parameters and the ability to predict them by common design methods differ substantially from an equivalent conventional design. Data errors and methods approximations have a greater effect in the analysis of heterogeneous cores, particularly with respect to such spatially varying parameters as power distributions and control rod worths. Preliminary results from recent experiments on a 700-MW(electric)-sized heterogeneous assembly are presented. As expected, predictions of physics parameters in general are worse than for conventional cores. Eigenvalue spectra and cross-section sensitivity have been used to characterize the spatial sensitivity of the cores.