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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.
Toshihiro Yamamoto, Yoshinori Miyoshi, Takehide Kiyosumi
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 145 | Number 1 | September 2003 | Pages 132-144
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE03-A2369
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Evaluated criticality benchmark data obtained at the Static Criticality Experiment Facility (STACY) account for a large percentage of low-enriched uranium (LEU) solution systems documented in the "International Handbook of Evaluated Criticality Safety Benchmark Experiments." These data are available for validation of computer codes and nuclear data used for criticality safety analyses of LEU solution systems. The calculated keff's for the water-reflected STACY criticality experiments have been overestimated with JENDL-3.2 by ~0.7%. These overestimations were kept in mind while making modifications of the fission spectrum and the fission cross section of 235U, and the (n,p) cross section of 14N in JENDL-3.3. Because of these modifications, the keff's calculated with JENDL-3.3 were largely improved. The contributions of these modifications in JENDL-3.3 with respect to JENDL-3.2 and ENDF/B-VI.5 were investigated by performing perturbation calculations. The overestimation of the elastic-scattering cross section of 56Fe in the mega-electron-volt range was one of the reasons for the keff overestimations for the STACY experiments with JENDL-3.2. The modification of 56Fe cross sections in JENDL-3.3 reduces keff's in the STACY experiments by 0.2%. The dependence of calculated keff's on uranium concentration still exists in JENDL-3.3. The overestimation of calculated keff's for the STACY experiments with JENDL-3.3 is not insignificant and is as much as 0.6%. These problems are to be resolved in a future evaluation of the cross-section library.