G21C 17/04
Detecting burst slugs
G21C17/04 (Detecting burst slugs) appears on 63 US grants and 22 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G21C- Granted patents
- 63
- Published applications
- 22
- Assignees
- 32
- Inventors
- 147
- Latest grant
- 29 Oct 2024
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| 1976 | 9 | 0 |
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| 2023 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024 | 1 | 3 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 | 0 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- System to detect and locate the in-core position of fuel bundles with cladding perforations in CANDU-style nuclear reactors29 Oct 2024US 12,131,829 B2Westinghouse Electric Corp.
- Defective fuel bundle location system10 Oct 2023US 11,783,955 B2BWXT Nuclear Energy Canada Inc.
- Very simplified boiling water reactors for commercial electricity generation29 Aug 2023US 11,742,099 B2GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC
- Defective fuel bundle location system23 Aug 2022US 11,424,043 B2BWXT Nuclear Energy Canada Inc.
- Self-powered in-core detector arrangement for measuring flux in a nuclear reactor core18 Jan 2022US 11,227,697 B2Framatome
- Method and apparatus for measuring activity concentration in the primary circuit of the high temperature gas-cooled reactor30 Jul 2026US 2026/0221299 A1Tsinghua University
- Methods to detect and locate the in-core position of fuel bundles with cladding perforations in candu-style nuclear reactors21 Nov 2024US 2024/0387065 A1Westinghouse Electric Corp.
- Boiling water reactors19 Sep 2024US 2024/0312650 A1GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC
- Method for online radioisotope measurement for failed fuel characterization in primary sodium systems22 Aug 2024US 2024/0282473 A1TerraPower, LLC
- Defective fuel bundle location system8 Dec 2022US 2022/0392654 A1BWXT Nuclear Energy Canada Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Nuclear reactor internals construction and failed fuel rod detection system41US 3,940,311 AWestinghouse Electric Corp. · 1976
- Liquid sampling apparatus39US 4,207,922 ACommissariat A L' Energie Atomique · 1980
- Neural net controlled tag gas sampling system for nuclear reactors17US 5,602,886 AThe University of Chicago · 1997
- Sensor for thermally ionizable particles and/or vapors15US 4,117,396 AWestinghouse Electric Corp. · 1978
- Detector collimator for moving filter media15US 5,343,046 A1994