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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.
Bernard S. Finn, James W. Wade
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 7 | Number 2 | February 1960 | Pages 93-96
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-A29076
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The effects of H2O contamination on lattices of natural uranium metal in D2O were measured in the exponential facility of the Savannah River Laboratory. The buckling changes associated with H2O contamination were determined for two lattices with moderator-to-fuel volume ratios of 12.3 and 14.6 over a range of H2O concentrations from 0.2 to 8.2 mol %. The agreement between calculated and experimental changes in buckling for these lattices was within ±25 × 10−6 cm−2. Similar measurements on seven other lattices with moderator-to-fuel ratios in the range from 31 to 212 were made for a change in the H2O concentration from 0.18 to 3.92 mol %. For these measurements the experimental change in buckling was about 15% greater than the calculated change.
