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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.
M. CANTWELL, M. GOLDSMITH
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 12 | Number 4 | April 1962 | Pages 490-497
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE62-A26096
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Measured fast fission activations of depleted U238 foils in thin clean critical slabs are compared with theoretical predictions made using the P-1 and P-3 approximations. Various methods of analyzing fast activation experiments are considered. Finally, the effect of the P-3 approximation in the fast groups on the thermal flux is studied by comparing Mn wire activations out to 50 cm in the reflector of a thin clean critical slab with several theoretical calculations. It is found, as would be expected, that the deviations of the calculated P-1 activations from experiment increase as the observer moves farther out into the reflector. The use of the P-3 approximation gives marked improvement. As regards eigenvalues, experience in the analysis of thin clean critical slabs with highly enriched fuel and metal-to-water volume ratios from 1 to 1.7 indicates that use of the P-3 approximation in the first few fast groups results in an increase in eigenvalue of more than a per cent.