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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.
B. Mukherjee, M. H. El Haddad, M. L. Vanderglas, D. V. Leemans
Nuclear Technology | Volume 55 | Number 2 | November 1981 | Pages 505-512
Technical Paper | Materials | doi.org/10.13182/NT55-505
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A large number of Monel 400 steam generator tubes may be subjected to low cycle fatigue because of the particular location of the thermal plate. A low cycle fatigue analysis method, simulating the deformation response of structural component elements due to irregular load history, was applied to predict stress-strain behavior and then fatigue life of the Monel 400 steam generator tubing. The experiments revealed that under worst loading conditions (maximum displacement, with a tube locked in the thermal plate), the specimens failed due to mechanical fatigue in a period corresponding to three to five times the expected service life of a steam generator. Standard internal coil eddy current inspection techniques were not successful in detecting the cracks that had initiated in the Monel tubes in the region of the modeled tubesheet. This made the experimental and analytical fatigue life prediction work even more valuable.
