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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.
Gunji Nishio, Mitsugu Tanaka, Kazuichiro Hashimoto, Yasuo Motoki, Mitsuo Naritomi, Susumu Kitani
Nuclear Technology | Volume 54 | Number 1 | July 1981 | Pages 68-86
Technical Paper | Nuclear safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT81-A32754
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The computer code COSMO (containment spray model) is prepared to provide information on radio iodine removal by the containment spray of boiling water reactors and pressurized water reactors involv ing an ice-condenser-type reactor in the event of a loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA). The code considers the removal of inorganic iodine, organic iodide, and particulate iodine in multiple compartments, taking into consideration natural deposition onto the con tainment wall, spray washout, liquid-film absorption, filtration, and leakage to the environment. The code is also developed by adding many abilities such as the gas convection flow between multicompartment rooms due to fluid disturbance and spray covering onto the inner structures involving the wall in the containment vessels. The calculated results are com pared with the iodine removal tests of the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute model contain ment, and the iodine removal for light water reactors of 1000 MW(electric) in the postulated LOCA con ditions is evaluated.