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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.
C.Ahnert, J. M. Aragonés , A. Crespo, A. Labay, J. R. León, A. I. Alvarez
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 100 | Number 3 | November 1988 | Pages 305-313
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-A29044
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The advances achieved during 1986 in the development and validation of the Spanish pressurized water reactor (PWR) core analysis system SEANAP-86 are presented and discussed. The advances were achieved through the cooperation of two research institutes (DENIM and JEN-CIEMAT) and two nuclear power plants (Almaraz and Ascó). The main features and advances of the core analysis system are summarized. The system is intended to provide the utilities with the in-house capability to analyze the core design, nuclear tests, and operation along reload cycles, as technical support for licensing and operation. The validation is done by an extensive comparison with the measurements available from the nuclear tests and in-core operation followup of four 900-MW(electric) PWR units (Almaraz-1 and -2, Ascó-1 and -2) along their first cycles and several reload cycles, as well as with the available design data. Good agreement is obtained for the broad sets of parameters and cycles analyzed, which qualifies the SEANAP-86 system as an effective core analysis support tool and encourages further developments, which are presently under way.