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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.
Masayuki Nakagawa, Takamasa Mori, Makoto Sasaki
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 107 | Number 1 | January 1991 | Pages 58-66
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23780
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Vectorization methods used in Monte Carlo codes for particle transport calculations are examined. Event and zone selection methods developed from conventional all-zone and one-zone algorithms have been implemented in a general-purpose vectorized code, GMVP. Moreover, a vectorization procedure to treat multiple-lattice geometry has been developed using these methods. Use of lattice geometry can reduce the computation cost for a typical pressurized water reactor fuel subassembly calculation, especially when the zone selection method is used. Sample calculations for external and fission source problems are used to compare the performances of both methods with the results of conventional scalar codes. Though the speedup resulting from vectorization depends on the problem solved, a factor of 7 to 10 is obtained for practical problems on the FACOM VP-100 computer compared with the conventional scalar code, MORSE-CG.