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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.
P. L. Arnsberger, M. Mazumdar
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 47 | Number 1 | January 1972 | Pages 140-149
Technical paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE72-A28427
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In thermal hydraulic design of nuclear reactor cores it is of interest to know the probability for 0, 1, 2, . . D hot channels and/or cladding and fuel hot spots [i.e., channels (spots) in the core at which temperature limits are exceeded]. Furthermore, it might even be advantageous to design a core for a maximum permissible number of such hot channels (spots) by comparing the safety considerations with the plant efficiency. Numerical procedures available in the open literature using statistical methods are currently restricted to the evaluation of hot channel or hot spot factors corresponding to the requirement that either the most exposed nominal channel (spot) or all channels (spots) in the entire core do not exceed imposed temperature or heat flux limits. This paper describes a method, hereafter referred to as “Method of Correlated Temperatures,” which enables an evaluation to be made of the entire probability distribution of the number of hot channels as a function of the corresponding hot channel factor. A quantitative comparison is performed between the proposed method and other procedures currently in use by applying the different methods to a hot channel factor analysis of a simplified hypothetical LMFBR-type core.