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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.
Toshio Funada, Isao Nihei, Shunichi Yuhara, Takashi Nakasuji
Nuclear Technology | Volume 45 | Number 2 | September 1979 | Pages 158-165
Technical Paper | Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT79-A32306
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A technique has been developed to measure the hydrogen level in liquid sodium using an inert gas carrier method. Hydrogen was extracted into an inert gas from sodium through a thin nickel membrane in the form of a helically wound tube. The amount of hydrogen in the inert gas was analyzed by gas chromatography. The present method is unique in that it can be used over the wide range of sodium temperatures (150 to 700°C) and has no problems associated with vacuum systems. The partial pressure of hydrogen in sodium was determined as a function of cold-trap tempera-ture (Tc) as log PH2(500°C) (Torr) = 8.796 − 4795/Tc (K) .Sieverts’ constant (Ks) was determined as a function of sodium temperature (T) as log Ks (ppm·Torr−1/2) = 0.171 + 198.1/T (K) .From Sieverts’ constant, the solubility of hydrogen in sodium is calculated as log CH (ppm) = 4.825 − 2398/Tc (K) .It was found that other impurities in sodium, such as (O) and (OH), have little effect on the hydrogen pressure in the sodium loop.
