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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.
I. Dilber and E. E. Lewis
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 91 | Number 2 | October 1985 | Pages 132-142
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE85-A27436
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Nodal diffusion and transport methods are formulated variationally in terms of the even-parity form of the neutron transport equation and applied to problems in X-Y geometry. The resulting functional guarantees the satisfaction of nodal balance, regardless of the form of the space-angle trial function within the node or on its boundaries. Deletion of X-Y cross terms from the within-node flux approximations yields equations that are strikingly similar to conventional diffusion nodal methods; inclusion of the terms obviates ad hoc approximations to the transverse leakage. Transport and diffusion nodal methods differ only in the angular basis functions. In both cases the equations are first solved for partial current moments along nodal interfaces. Subsequently, the detailed flux distribution and the node-averaged scalar flux values are obtained from the spatial trial functions. Results are given for fixed-source two-dimensional problems in the P1 and P3 approximations. Code vectorization and generalization to three dimensions are discussed.