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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.
B. Basarragtscha, D. Hermsdorf, D. Seeliger
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 83 | Number 2 | February 1983 | Pages 294-299
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE83-A18221
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A semiempirical model, the so-called R-parameter model, introduced by Howerton and Plechaty has been proven to be a simple but, nevertheless, a very successful formalism for the description of gamma-ray spectra emitted in the course of nuclear reactions induced by fast neutrons. By the single parameter R, the gamma-ray spectrum will be predicted with a satisfying reliability in a wide range of nuclear masses and neutron incidence energies. The formalism is limited to neutron incidence energies below the (n,2n) threshold. Above this energy, a proposed modified ansatz yields good results.