G21C 15/185
Using energy stored in reactor system
Official title: {using energy stored in reactor system}
G21C15/185 (Using energy stored in reactor system) appears on 37 US grants and 48 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G21C- Granted patents
- 37
- Published applications
- 48
- Assignees
- 19
- Inventors
- 117
- Latest grant
- 14 Jul 2026
Filings by year
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| 1989 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2012 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 3 |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | 1 | 3 |
| 2017 | 2 | 4 |
| 2018 | 4 | 7 |
| 2019 | 3 | 1 |
| 2020 | 5 | 9 |
| 2021 | 4 | 3 |
| 2022 | 4 | 5 |
| 2023 | 3 | 4 |
| 2024 | 3 | 3 |
| 2025 | 3 | 1 |
| 2026 | 1 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Curvilinear electromagnetic pump3 Dec 2024US 12,160,153 B2TerraPower, LLC
- Combined cycle nuclear power plant14 May 2026US 2026/0132921 A1NuScale Power, LLC
- Curvilinear electromagnetic pump30 Apr 2026US 2026/0121503 A1TerraPower, LLC
- Inertial energy coastdown for electromagnetic pump5 Jun 2025US 2025/0183776 A1TerraPower, LLC
- Method of constructing a nuclear reactor having reactor core and control elements supported by reactor vessel head12 Dec 2024US 2024/0413729 A1TerraPower, LLC
- Liquid metal or molten salt(s) reactor incorporating a decay heat removal (dhr) system that removes heat through the primary reactor vessel, comprising a module of passively or actively triggered pivoting fins located in the guard gap27 Jun 2024US 2024/0212872 A1Commissariat A L' Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives
Most cited
By later US patents
- Turbine-generator shaft-coupled auxiliary generators supplying short-duration electrical loads for an emergency coolant injection system25US 4,818,475 AGeneral Electric Company · 1989
- Low pressure reactor safety systems and methods15US 9,460,818 B2GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC · 2016
- Steam injector system9US 5,262,091 AKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba · 1993
- Reactor circulating pump system8US 5,610,958 AKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba · 1997
- Passive safety equipment for a nuclear power plant6US 10,115,488 B2Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute · 2018