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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.
S. Pahor
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 31 | Number 1 | January 1968 | Pages 110-116
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A18013
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The method for solving time-independent one-speed half-space transport problems, which was explained in earlier papers, is applied to find the emerging distributions for the albedo and Milne problems for thermal neutrons with the isotropic degenerate kernel. By using the principle of invariance and the reciprocity theorem, these distributions are expressed in terms of the H-matrix. This matrix is a generalization of the one-speed Ambarzumian-Chandrasekhar H-function and satisfies a nonlinear integral equation. The conditions, which uniquely determine the physical solution of this equation, are derived. At the end, the possibilities for calculating the H-matrix by iteration are discussed.