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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.
Bernard W. Shaffer
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 19 | Number 3 | July 1964 | Pages 300-309
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE64-A20963
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Thermal stress and displacement equations are derived for an internally clad tube for which the ratio of cladding thickness to internal tube radius is small with respect to unity and in which the cladding and the basic tube have different material properties. When the difference between the cladding temperature and the average temperature of the basic tube is large enough, plastic flow is found to occur in the cladding. The corresponding solution is found by making use of the Tresca yield condition and its associated flow law. The solution is examined to guide the designer in the selection of those cladding material properties that would delay the initiation of plastic flow.