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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.
Yukiko Hanzawa, Daisuke Hiroishi, Chihiro Matsuura, Kenkichi Ishigure
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 124 | Number 2 | October 1996 | Pages 211-218
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE96-A28572
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The solubility of nickel ferrite is measured at 423, 473, and 523 K in a pure or oxygenated water system, which is similar to boiling water reactor conditions‚ using a specially designed batch autoclave system. Thermodynamic analysis is performed by a procedure minimizing Gibbs free energy of the system at the final state. On the basis of both the analysis and the experimental results, it is shown that the dissolution mechanism of NiFe2O4 under the condition where no redox reaction takes place consists of both NiFe2O4 dissolution and Fe2O3 precipitation equilibria. The calculated value of the solubility at 423 K using literature values of the thermodynamic data agree with the experimental value, but at 473 and 523 K they deviate somewhat from the experimental ones. By fitting to the experimental results at these temperatures, the thermodynamic data of NiFe2O4 for 473 and 523 K are reanalyzed, and new values are proposed.