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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.
A. D. Horton
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 13 | Number 2 | June 1962 | Pages 103-109
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE62-A26139
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Gas chromatography was used to identify and to determine volatile products from the Homogeneous Reactor Test and from the processing of nuclear fuels and wastes. A gas Chromatograph was constructed and used for part of the separations. It differs from conventional chromatographs in having an all-Pyrex gas-sampling system and all-Pyrex columns for use in the analysis of corrosive gases, that is, the oxides and chlorides of nitrogen. Temperature programming of the molecular-sieves column was used to advantage in the determination of the oxides of nitrogen and of carbon. The effect of the adsorption characteristics of type 5-A molecular sieves with respect to the adsorption-desorption of water and of nitric oxide was determined; both effects are significant in the analysis of mixtures of the oxides of nitrogen. The versatility of molecular sieves as an adsorbent in gas-solid chromatography was exploited in this work.