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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.
Hiroshi Sekimoto, Nobuhiro Yamamuro
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 1 | January 1982 | Pages 101-112
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21407
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The minimization of the functionals defined by the prior knowledge and integral data of a neutron spectrum can be the basis of many unfolding methods. The form of these functionals classifies the widely used methods: FERDOR, SPECTRA, RFSP, CRYSTAL BALL, SAND-II, STAYSL, and others. The methods are systematically derived and theoretically compared to each other. Their relations to the function expansion method are discussed, and several cases of estimated spectra are studied. Treatments of response-function errors are also mentioned.