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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.
E. L. Childs, J. L. Long
Nuclear Technology | Volume 54 | Number 2 | August 1981 | Pages 208-214
Technical Paper | Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT81-A32736
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An electrolytic plutonium decontamination process for stainless steel was developed for use as the final step in a proposed radioactive waste handling and decontamination facility to be constructed at the Rockwell International Rocky Flats plutonium handling facility. The process utilizes a basic (pH > 7) electrolyte which has been patented (U.S. Patent 4 193 853). Filtration can be used to separate most radioactive contaminants and dissolved metal from the electrolyte. A test plan was executed comparing the basic electrolyte with phosphoric acid and nitric acid electrolytes. Laboratory-scale testing was done with stainless steel exposed to plutonium and americium. The alpha activity was reduced to <0.14 dis/min-cm-2. The amount of wet sludge generated with the basic electrolyte was ∼170 mg/cm2 of surface decontaminated.
