G21C 15/06
In fuel elements
Official title: in fuel elements
G21C15/06 (In fuel elements) appears on 31 US grants and 40 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G21C- Granted patents
- 31
- Published applications
- 40
- Assignees
- 28
- Inventors
- 116
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
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| 2023 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5 |
| 2025 | 4 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Heat pipe fuel element and fission reactor incorporating same, particularly having phyllotaxis spacing pattern of heat pipe fuel elements, and method of manufacture8 Sep 2026US 12,731,700 B2BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC
- Nuclear reactor for heat and power generation30 Sep 2025US 12,431,249 B2Oklo Inc.
- Method for operating nuclear reactor for heat and power generation30 Sep 2025US 12,431,250 B2Oklo Inc.
- Radial in-flow particle bed nuclear rocket engine and method9 Sep 2025US 12,410,766 B1Dark Fission Space Systems Inc.
- Radial in-flow particle bed nuclear rocket engine and method25 Feb 2025US 12,234,792 B1Dark Fission Space Systems Inc.
- Fuel assemblies for reactor systems16 Jul 2026US 2026/0204441 A1BAE SYSTEMS plc
- Multiplicative fission and converter Core for thermal and electrial generation16 Jul 2026US 2026/0204442 A1
- Heat exchangers28 May 2026US 2026/0148870 A1Nano Nuclear Energy Inc.
- Reactor systems28 May 2026US 2026/0148873 A1Nano Nuclear Energy Inc.
- Radial in-flow particle bed nuclear rocket engine and method30 Apr 2026US 2026/0117726 A1Dark Fission Space Systems Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Nuclear fuel assembly with coolant conducting tube21US 4,420,458 AGeneral Electric Company · 1983
- Nuclear propulsion rocket21US 5,410,578 AThe Babcock & Wilcox Company · 1995
- Fuel assembly for nuclear reactors20US 4,970,047 AKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba · 1990
- Fuel assembly having water passageway in channel wall16US 4,526,746 AAB Asea-Atom · 1985
- Direct reactor auxiliary cooling system for a molten salt nuclear reactor9US 11,488,731 B2TerraPower, LLC · 2022