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Investment bill would provide funding options for energy projects
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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.
John N. Rosholt
Nuclear Technology | Volume 51 | Number 2 | December 1980 | Pages 143-146
Technical Paper | Argonne National Laboratory Specialists’ Workshop on Basic Research Needs for Nuclear Waste Management / Radioactive Waste | doi.org/10.13182/NT80-A32593
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Extensive studies conducted during the past two decades regarding the behavior of 238U and its decay products in the geologic environment have shown that radioactive disequilibrium in the 238U decay series is a common phenomenon. The daughter products 234U and 230Th are especially useful as indicators of processes affecting uranium migration because of their relatively long half-lives and contrasting chemical behavior. A striking variability in 234U/238U ratios occurs in zeolitically altered volcanic tuff investigated in this study. Results indicate that initial preferential emplacement of 234U by adsorption-alpha recoil mechanisms gradually was overwhelmed by preferential displacement of 234U by leaching-alpha recoil mechanisms. The data provide guidelines for predicting the behavior of chemically analogous members of the 237Np decay series (233U, 229Th) in the natural environment following geologic disposal of radioactive wastes.
