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Investment bill would provide funding options for energy projects
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The bipartisan Financing Our Futures Act, which expands certain financing tools to all types of energy resources and infrastructure projects, was reintroduced to the U.S. Senate on February 20 by Sens. Jerry Moran (R., Kan.) and Chris Coons (D., Del.).
Via amendment to the Internal Revenue Code, the legislation would allow advanced nuclear energy projects to form as master limited partnerships (MLPs), a tax structure currently available only to traditional energy projects.
An MLP is a business structure that is taxed as a partnership but the ownership interests of which are traded like corporate stock on a market. Until the Internal Revenue Code is amended, MLPs will continue to be available only to investors in energy portfolios for oil, natural gas, coal extraction, and pipeline projects that derive at least 90 percent of their income from these sources. This change would take effect on January 1, 2026.
M. Cumo, G. E. Farello, J. Gasiorowski, G. Iovino, A. Naviglio
Nuclear Technology | Volume 49 | Number 3 | August 1980 | Pages 337-346
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT80-A17682
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Two-phase cross flows have received minor consideration in thermal-hydraulics research, notwithstanding their applications in chemical engineering systems. Many types of heat exchangers and steam generators have, at least in a segment of the flow path, a cross direction of a two-phase mixture to a tube bank even in nuclear plant components. The departure from nucleate boiling (DNB), or the dry-out threshold, is one of the main limits that characterize the whole flow field. For this reason it has been deemed interesting to investigate the influence of quality on DNB heat flux in flow boiling, employing a 9-tube bundle with cross flow of Freon 12. Rather surprisingly, the DNB heat flux rises with quality. The rise has been tested from the pool boiling DNB value as predicted by Lienhard up to a saturation value 20% higher. The law of increase may be reasonably well predicted following the well-known critical heat flux theory of Zuber.
