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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.
V. A. Kazakov, A. S. Pokrovsky, A. V. Smirnov
Nuclear Technology | Volume 53 | Number 3 | June 1981 | Pages 392-406
Technical Paper | Nuclear Fuel Cycle Education Module / Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT81-A32648
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The effect of neutron irradiation on the mechanical properties, structure, and peculiarities of void formation in the Mo-Zr-B alloy within the temperature range from 400 to 1080° C and fluences (1.3 to 11.5) · 1025 n/m2 (>0.1 MeV) has been investigated. The results from radiation studies of poly- and monocrystalline molybdenum, Mo—0.12 Zr—0.16 Ti alloy and of the Mo-Zr-B alloys with different initial thermal treatment have been analyzed. At temperatures of 950 and 1080°C, the voids of nonequiaxial shape are formed, and at 1010°C only planar defects, supposedly thin precipitates, are observed. These results show a minimum swelling of the Mo-Zr-B alloy at 1010°C. It is expected that the peculiarities of void evolution in the Mo-Zr-B alloy are due to the impurity precipitation on void faces. A good correlation of the calculated and experimental values for radiation strengthening of the alloy as a result of voids and dislocation loops within a wide range of their sizes and concentrations was observed. A connection was found between the reduction of the uniform elongation within the temperature range from 400 to 900° C and voidage parameters. A maximum strengthening of the alloy takes place after irradiation at 635°C, which results from a high density of both 1.5-nm-diam voids and the dislocation loops.
