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Deploying nuclear power: Financing, risk, and execution in the current market environment
Nielson
The renewed global interest in nuclear power is often framed as a policy story driven by decarbonization goals, energy security concerns, and surging electricity demand from digital infrastructure and electrification. While these forces are real and durable, they materially understate the challenge at hand. The practical constraint on nuclear deployment today is not strategic will, but execution. Specifically, the challenge lies in how nuclear projects are financed, how risk is allocated, and how investors assess credibility in a sector defined by long timelines and asymmetric downside risk.
W. P. Poenitz
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 40 | Number 3 | June 1970 | Pages 383-388
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE70-A20189
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The ratios σγ(238U)/σ/(235U), σγ(238U)/σγ(239Pu), and σf (239Pu)/σf (235U) have been measured in the energy range 130 to 1400 keV. The activation technique was used to determine the capture rate in 238U. The 278 keV γ ray emitted in the decay of 239Np was detected by means of a Ge(Li) detector. The counting efficiencies have been absolutely determined for the measurement of σγ(238U)/σf(239Pu). For the determination of the ratio σγ(238U)/σf(235U) the counting efficiencies have been eliminated by a measurement of the ratio at thermal-neutron energies. The ratio σf(239Pu)/σf(235U) has been measured in a back-to-back gas scintillation counter using the time-of-flight method for background suppression. The measurements resulted in an overdetermination of two unknown quantities by three measured values. The fitted values derived from the collective results were in good agreement with the individual measured ratios.
