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Investment bill would provide funding options for energy projects
Coons
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.
Prodyot Roy, C. N. Spalaris
Nuclear Technology | Volume 55 | Number 2 | November 1981 | Pages 259-269
Technical Paper | Materials | doi.org/10.13182/NT55-259
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A development program was undertaken to support the materials selection for steam generator piping and intermediate heat exchangers that are to be used in liquid-metal fast breeder reactors. Four major topics have been reviewed, and the results obtained as well as the direction of future tests have been described. These topics are carbon transport in sodium, the effect of carbon loss/gain on materials in the reactor intermediate heat transport system (IHTS), corrosion fatigue, and aqueous corrosion. Thus far, the results on hand support the initial assumptions made in specifying the use of Cr—1 Mo as the construction material for the evaporator and superheater and Type 316 piping of the IHTS. The future direction of the experimental programs is to verify further the materials choice and also to obtain information that will be essential during the plant installation and operation and the reliability of the components.
