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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.
J. W. Martin, D. E. J. Talbot
Nuclear Technology | Volume 55 | Number 2 | November 1981 | Pages 499-504
Technical Paper | Materials | doi.org/10.13182/NT55-504
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Corrosion current transients synchronized with the cyclic strain were observed when AISI Type 316 stainless steel plate was strained by reverse bending at 24 Hz in selected aqueous media. This was accomplished by extracting for oscilloscope display the regular fluctuating component of the corrosion current flowing when the sample was polarized to prescribed potentials. The amplitude of the cyclic current transient could be correlated with the expected stability of the passive condition of the steel when it was polarized to potentials within its passive range. Chloride ions increased and chromate ions decreased the amplitude of the signals. These results are interpreted as providing evidence that (a) the dominant stress-environment interaction for this material is strain-induced rupture of the passive film at persistent slip bands, accelerating crack initiation and (b) the chemical depassivating or passivating influence of the environment is additive to the mechanical depassivating effect of the applied cyclic stress.
