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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. Di Cola and A. Rota
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 23 | Number 4 | December 1965 | Pages 344-353
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE65-A21071
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The use of series expansion methods in treating threshold-detector activation data has been analyzed. Normally the indiscriminate use of detectors having similar responses leads to unstable and ill-conditioned systems. The reasons for these deficiencies are determined and a new method for overcoming them is proposed. To make optimum use of the experimental data in obtaining a solution for the incident neutron spectrum, the series expansions coefficients are obtained through the Gauss method by solving a least-squares problem. A procedure, based on the Monte Carlo method, has been set up to statistically study the effect of experimental input errors on the solution obtained. The most important results indicate that: any set of threshold detectors can be used independent of their cross-section shapes the reliability increases as the number of detectors increases the reliability decreases when the number of series expansion terms increases.