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Investment bill would provide funding options for energy projects
Coons
Moran
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.
Richard Simms
Nuclear Technology | Volume 50 | Number 3 | October 1980 | Pages 257-266
Technical Paper | Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT80-A32529
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A systematic study of fuel motion in TREAT tests related to liquid-metal fast breeder reactor (LMFBR) safety has been conducted for recent experiments containing typical LMFBR fuel Net axial fuel motion is characterized by changes in fuel reactivity worth using representative LMFBR fuel-worth distributions. Fuel-motion data from these experiments, when converted to changes in equivalent fuel worth, permit interpretations based on the experimental results to be related to specific LMFBR safety issues. Verification of fuel-motion-model predictions in accident-analysis codes can also be greatly simplified by comparisons with the experimental results using the equivalent fuel-worth changes as the principal figure of merit.
