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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.
K. Przybylski, J. Ligou
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 81 | Number 1 | May 1982 | Pages 92-109
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A19597
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
After a short presentation of the Boltzmann-Fokker-Planck (BFP) equation, which was derived in a previous work, two numerical approaches to solve this equation are investigated-the multigroup method and a diamond scheme applied in a consistent way to space and energy variables. Because of the parabolic nature of the Fokker-Planck operator, it is shown that the standard neutron transport codes cannot solve such an equation. With the one-dimensional time-dependent BFP-1 code, many numerical results have been produced. All deal with the transport of charged particles in dense plasmas because such a problem is very severe from a numerical point of view. Other applications can be imagined since the BFP formalism is quite general.
