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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.
G. T. Chapman, W. R. Burrus
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 34 | Number 2 | November 1968 | Pages 169-180
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A19542
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Measurements of the pulse-height distribution of gamma rays observed as a function of position and angle in the water shield of the Bulk Shielding Reactor II, a water-moderated and water-cooled pool-type reactor with stainless steel clad fuel plates, have been transformed to gamma-ray energy flux spectra by a computer program which removed the effects of the spectrometer's nonunique pulse-height response and accounted for the energy variation of the spectrometer's efficiency. The results show that the photons above 5 MeV originate primarily from thermal-neutron capture in the components of the stainless steel. Gamma rays due to the 57Fe component were identified as those known to be at 5.91, 6.02, and 7.6 MeV. Others were due to 58Fe at 10.16 MeV, to 54Cr at 8.88 and 9.72 MeV, and to 59Ni at 8.53 and 8.99 MeV. Below 5 MeV the spectra consist of a strong contribution at 2.2 MeV from thermal-neutron capture in the hydrogen of the pool water, combined with a continuum presumably composed of prompt and delayed gamma rays following fission, lower energy components in the capture spectra from the stainless steel, scattering in the reactor or shield, and other lesser sources.