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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. A. Niebruegge, E. L. Tolman, C. W. Solbrig
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 68 | Number 3 | December 1978 | Pages 363-368
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27316
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Thus far, existing computer programs have been adequate to predict the behavior of the loss-of-fluid test facility (LOFT) non-nuclear loss-of-coolant experiments. The work presented here describes a predictive capability for modeling nuclear experiments to determine if the same fuel can be used in several experiments. This is analogous to determining if fuel may be reused after a pressurized water reactor loss-of-coolant accident. We are concerned here with discussing only best-estimate calculations for experimental predictions and not the conservative models used for licensing. It was found that an adequate analysis procedure could be established by modeling accurately the fuel stored energy before the experiment is initiated. The initial stored energy in the fuel was found to be the most important fuel rod parameter influencing the maximum cladding temperature obtained in the transient.