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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.
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Nuclear Technology | Volume 48 | Number 1 | April 1980 | Pages 63-69
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste | doi.org/10.13182/NT80-A32448
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The several water intrusion scenario studies in the recent literature are all quite similar and may be easily understood if used to estimate the total number of eventual cancers per unit of energy generated, including their sensitivity to input parameters. However, these studies are grossly overpessimistic in several aspects of the problem, especially in using leach rate data from highly unrealistic experimental situations, and in ignoring geochemical considerations in both leaching and in transport. It is concluded that it is reasonable to expect removal and transport for an atom of buried waste to be similar to that for an atom of average rock. Under that assumption, the leach rate can be estimated from the chemical compositions of rock and of groundwater, coupled with the water flow through aquifers. The result (excluding 238U) is 0.0008 eventual cancer/GW(electric)-yr. This treatment would be invalidated if the waste were released through fractures in the rock induced by the emplacement operations or by heat. If such fractures cannot be discounted, total reliance must be on leach resistance.
