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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.
R. N. Hill, K. O. Ott
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 103 | Number 1 | September 1989 | Pages 12-24
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE89-A23656
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A review of worldwide results reveals that reaction rates in the blanket region are generally underpredicted with the discrepancy increasing with penetration; however, these results vary widely. Experiments in the large uniform Purdue University Fast Breeder Blanket Facility blanket yield an accurate quantification of this discrepancy. Using standard production code methods (diffusion theory with 50-group cross sections), a consistent calculated-to-experimental (C/E) drop-off is observed for various reaction rates. A 50% increase in the calculated results at the outer edge of the 51-cm blanket is necessary for agreement with experiments. The usefulness of refined group constant generation, utilizing specialized weighting spectra, and transport theory methods in correcting this discrepancy is analyzed. Refined group constants reduce the discrepancy to half that observed using the standard method. The surprising result is that transport methods have no effect on the blanket deviations; thus, the present multigroup transport theory does not constitute or even contribute to an explanation of the blanket discrepancies. The residual blanket C/E drop-off (about half the standard drop-off) using advanced methods must be caused by approximations that are applied in all current multigroup methods.