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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.
L. Mergan, J. Storrer, R. Verbeke, J. P. Cordier
Nuclear Technology | Volume 46 | Number 3 | December 1979 | Pages 606-610
Technical Paper | Nuclear Power Reactor Safety / Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT79-A32372
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Safety problems have been reported from existing radwaste solidification installations (unsetting, free water, decontamination difficulties, outage, etc.). Safety requirements to be applied to such processes are proposed, first from the standpoint of installation features and equipment (i.e., proven process, simplicity, equipment choice, remote decontamination, layout, remote control, backup means) and second, as regards the properties of the solidified end products. The “volume reduction” technique, which is now available on the market (four different types of processes are mentioned), offers appreciable safety improvements and important cost savings. Given figures (experimental and calculated) indicate that solidified end product volumes are reduced by a factor of 7 to 8.5 or more.
