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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. Kaplan and J. B. Yasinsky
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 25 | Number 4 | August 1966 | Pages 430-438
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE66-A18565
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The physical question of the spatial stability of a reactor with respect to xenon oscillations corresponds to a mathematical question regarding the location in the complex plane of the roots of a certain eigenvalue problem. The introduction of feedback controllers corresponds to the imposition of constraints on the eigenvalue problem. The effect of certain such constraints on the locations of the eigenvalues is examined in this paper for the idealized case of a one-group uniform-ring reactor. It is found that the eigenvalues obey a rule related to Rayleigh's separation theorem for vibrating mechanical systems. A numerical example is given in which the solutions of the constrained eigenproblem are displayed, interpreted physically, and compared with those of the unconstrained problem.