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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.
Y.-J. Huang, H. Paul Wang, Chih C. Chao, H. H. Liu, M. C. Hsiao, S. H. Liu
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 151 | Number 3 | November 2005 | Pages 355-360
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE05-A2555
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Experimentally, two-stage oxidation of spent low-level radioactive resin was found by thermo- gravimetric analysis (TGA). About 24% of the spent resins was oxidized at 600 to 900 K. Online Fourier transform infrared spectra showed that the decomposition of the -SO3H species in the resin to SO2 occurred at 670 and 1020 K. The numerical calculation from TGA weight loss data at different heating rates showed that the global activation energies for oxidation of the spent resins were 108 to 138 kJmol-1. The reaction orders for resin and oxygen were about 1.0 and 3.5, respectively. The global rate equations for oxidation of the resin in the first and second stages can be expressed as dx1/dt (s-1) = 2.3 × 107 (s-1)exp[-117 900(Jmol-1)/T(K)][1 - x (%)]0.82 [O2 (vt%)]3.5 (x denotes the reaction conversion) and dx2/dt = 8.4 × 1017 exp(-239 500/RT) (1 - x)0.9[O2]4.5, respectively.