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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.
P. T. Hansson, L. R. Foulke
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 17 | Number 4 | December 1963 | Pages 528-533
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A18443
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Measurements of the spatial dependence of the zero power transfer function of the reactor NORA have been performed, using a local reactivity perturbation. Spatial effects were observed for frequencies higher than the break frequency β/l, and the wave nature of the flux space-time variation has been recognized. A theoretical interpretation based on two-group diffusion theory is given by solution of the equations by the finite difference method on an analogue computer. The qualitative agreement between theory and experiment is good.