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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.
A. J. Francis, C. R. Iden, B. J. Nine, C. K. Chang
Nuclear Technology | Volume 50 | Number 2 | September 1980 | Pages 158-163
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste | doi.org/10.13182/NT80-A32541
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Several trench leachate samples collected from commercially operated low-level radioactive waste disposal sites at Maxey Flats, Kentucky and at West Valley, New York were analyzed for organic constituents. The organic compounds in the water samples were extracted with methylene chloride, separated into acidic, basic, and neutral fractions, and analyzed by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry. About 75 compounds consisting of several straight and branched chain aliphatic acids, aromatic acids, alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, amines, aromatic hydrocarbons, esters, ethers, and phenols were identified in the leachate samples. These compounds represent, in general, the synthetic and natural organic wastes such as contaminated cellulosic materials, scintillation liquids, solvents, and decontamination fluids buried in the trenches and their biological decomposition products. The organic compounds, especially the organic acids, phthalates, and tributyl phosphate, may influence the mobility of the radionuclides from the burial trenches by solubilization, leaching, and formation of weak complexes.
