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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.
Nobukazu Tanaka, Shoichi Moriya, Akira Wada
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 88 | Number 3 | November 1984 | Pages 445-463
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE84-A18598
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The most important problem in the thermal-hydraulic designs of the pool-type fast breeder reactor is to estimate the thermal conditions affecting the vessel and/or internal structures during both steady and transient operations. The severity of these conditions in the Japanese pool-type reactor, which will be reinforced and equipped with special devices for seismic demands, is apt to be much greater than for other countries. Water tests and thermal-hydraulic analyses have been performed to study such conditions. The effects of the elevations of upper internal structure discharge and intermediate heat exchanger intakes on flow patterns, free surface disturbance, and thermal stratification in the hot plenum have been estimated. From the results of the experiments, suitable elevations could be recommended by comparing some thermal-hydraulic characteristics. The calculations agreed well with the experimental results for the steady-state flow patterns and thermal transients, with the exception of thermal stratification.