G21C 17/102
The sensitive element being part of a fuel element or a fuel
Official title: {the sensitive element being part of a fuel element or a fuel assembly (structural combination with a thermoelectric element for direct production of electrical energy G21C3/40)}
G21C17/102 (The sensitive element being part of a fuel element or a fuel) appears on 43 US grants and 41 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G21C- Granted patents
- 43
- Published applications
- 41
- Assignees
- 24
- Inventors
- 97
- Latest grant
- 30 Sep 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Method for monitoring failure of coated particles in fuel elements in core of pebble-bed high-temperature gas-cooled reactor30 Sep 2025US 12,431,251 B2Tsinghua University
- Detection apparatus25 Mar 2025US 12,260,964 B2Westinghouse Electric Corp.
- Optical fiber-based gamma calorimeter (OFBGC)11 Mar 2025US 12,247,937 B2Ohio State Innovation Foundation
- Detection apparatus comprising a resonant electrical circuit located within a nuclear fuel rod4 Mar 2025US 12,243,660 B2Westinghouse Electric Corp.
- Techniques for incorporating sensors into apparatuses and systems19 Nov 2024US 12,148,538 B2Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC
- Detection apparatus comprising a resonant electrical circuit located within a nuclear fuel rod31 Jul 2025US 2025/0246325 A1Westinghouse Electric Corp.
- Heat Exchangers for Fuel Rods Incorporating Sensors2 Jan 2025US 2025/0006388 A1Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC
- Supports with integrated sensors for nuclear reactor steam generators, and associated systems and methods28 Nov 2024US 2024/0395426 A1NuScale Power, LLC
- Detection apparatus comprising a resonant electrical circuit located within a nuclear fuel rod29 Feb 2024US 2024/0071637 A1Westinghouse Electric Corp.
- Method for monitoring failure of coated particles in fuel elements in core of pebble-bed high-temperature gas-cooled reactor31 Aug 2023US 2023/0274847 A1Tsinghua University
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus for determining the local power generation rate in a nuclear reactor fuel assembly22US 4,298,430 AScandpower A/S · 1981
- Miniature gamma thermometer slideable through bore for measuring linear heat generation rate20US 4,313,792 AScandpower, Inc. · 1982
- Anomaly diagnosis system for a nuclear reactor core16US 4,943,683 APower Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation · 1990
- Self-powered wireless in-core detector10US 8,681,920 B2Westinghouse Electric Corp. · 2014
- In-core instrument thimble assembly5US 10,438,708 B2Westinghouse Electric Corp. · 2019