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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.
Frank B. Estabrook
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 11 | Number 1 | September 1961 | Pages 43-47
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE61-A25982
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A multigroup diffusion theory is formulated for heterogeneous reactors having periodic arrays of line discontinuities. These discontinuities are idealized cylindrical internal boundaries of an otherwise homogeneous moderating medium, and appropriate mixed-group or multiplying boundary conditions at such boundaries allow Floquet solutions to be found for the neutron fluxes in the moderator. Real superpositions of such Floquet solutions can then give the physical fluxes in finite reactors. The requirement that a Floquet solution in the moderator have the proper thermal flux behavior at a cylindrical internal boundary, to match the thermal flux actually inside a fuel rod, leads to a “criticality” condition, the solutions of which give the spectrum of allowed Floquet solutions. For each of these a relation between material bucklings Bx2, By2, and Bz2 is obtained which is, in general, anisotropic.