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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.
Walter E. Clark, W. B. Howerton, J. C. Mailen
Nuclear Technology | Volume 53 | Number 2 | May 1981 | Pages 235-240
Technical Paper | Realistic Estimates of the Consequences of Nuclear Accident / Chemical Processing | doi.org/10.13182/NT81-A32629
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Extensive recycle of nitric acid and water in a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant can result in the buildup of deleterious trace impurities; identified materials of serious concern include fluoride, chloride, and organic materials. Methods for removal of these deleterious materials must be developed to allow increased aqueous recycle. Fluoride at 10 to 100 µg/ml can be removed from 10 M HNO3 using a silica gel column. Chloride can be removed from 10 M HNO3 by sparging with ozonized air, a method that is rapid even at room temperature. Carbonaceous material can be removed by pressurized aqueous combustion and by ozonation and the latter can be greatly accelerated by the presence of Ag+ ions.
