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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.
David D. Ebert
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 55 | Number 4 | December 1974 | Pages 470-476
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE74-A23481
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The major objective of this investigation was to study the possibility of measuring dynamic characteristics of the Experimental Breeder Reactor II (EBR-II) by an analysis of the inherent fluctuations at steady state. Subsidiary objectives were to devise a means whereby detailed signature analyses could be obtained on a routine basis and to interpret these signatures. Relatively simple noise models were developed for the EBR-II which aided in the interpretation of the measured signatures. From this interpretation, it appears that it is not possible to measure the power to reactivity transfer function using inherent noise analysis with the existing EBR-II detection equipment. There exists, however, the possibility that this transfer function, and transfer functions of a similar type, may be measured if thermocouples and flowmeters of a different design and/or location are implemented. Detailed, broad frequency range signatures of two neutron detectors have been obtained at low and high power levels for one run. Also, signatures of a single neutron detector have been processed for several runs. These signatures changed in a complicated fashion from run to run.