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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.
D. F. Rhodes, R. A. Stallwood, W. E. Mott
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 9 | Number 1 | January 1961 | Pages 41-46
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE61-A25863
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A general expression for the intensity of unscattered gamma rays at points on the axis of a cylindrical absorber, surrounded by a ring-shaped self-absorbing source of rectangular cross section, is derived in terms of two integrals that have been evaluated on the IBM 704 computer. The results are presented in the form of curves from which the intensity can be determined for a wide variety of cases. For points not on the axis of symmetry a solution is given for the special case of source with large peripheral dimensions.
