G21C 15/10
From reflector or thermal shield
Official title: from reflector or thermal shield
G21C15/10 (From reflector or thermal shield) appears on 21 US grants and 16 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G21C- Granted patents
- 21
- Published applications
- 16
- Assignees
- 20
- Inventors
- 86
- Latest grant
- 10 Feb 2026
Filings by year
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| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2017 | 0 | 1 |
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| 2020 | 1 | 3 |
| 2021 | 2 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2 | 3 |
| 2023 | 1 | 4 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- 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.
- Reflectors for molten chloride fast reactors17 Oct 2023US 11,791,057 B2TerraPower, LLC
- Heat transfer systems for nuclear reactor cores, and related systems22 Nov 2022US 11,508,488 B2Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC
- Radial in-flow particle bed nuclear rocket engine and method30 Apr 2026US 2026/0117726 A1Dark Fission Space Systems Inc.
- Nuclear reactor30 Nov 2023US 2023/0386686 A1Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
- Nuclear reactor unit and method for cooling nuclear reactor unit9 Nov 2023US 2023/0360812 A1Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
- Multipurpose common-pool based flooding-type management system for small modular reactors11 May 2023US 2023/0144418 A1Iucf-Hyu (Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University)
- Molten salt fast reactor13 Apr 2023US 2023/0114117 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Fast reactor having reflector control system33US 5,420,897 ACentral Research Institute of Electric Power Industry · 1995
- Systems and methods to enhance passive containment cooling system14US 6,618,461 B2General Electric Company · 2003
- Reflectors for molten chloride fast reactors10US 11,075,015 B2TerraPower, LLC · 2021
- Reactor vessel reflector with integrated flow-through10US 8,472,581 B2NuScale Power, LLC · 2013
- Device for retaining a hot melt in particular a core melt-through inside the spreading chamber of a nuclear reactor installation5US 6,192,097 B1Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · 2001