G21C 19/19
Reactor parts specifically adapted to facilitate handling
Official title: Reactor parts specifically adapted to facilitate handling, e.g. to facilitate charging or discharging of fuel elements
G21C19/19 (Reactor parts specifically adapted to facilitate handling) appears on 62 US grants and 77 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G21C- Granted patents
- 62
- Published applications
- 77
- Assignees
- 43
- Inventors
- 206
- Latest grant
- 19 May 2026
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| 2019 | 9 | 12 |
| 2020 | 3 | 3 |
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| 2022 | 3 | 6 |
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| 2024 | 5 | 3 |
| 2025 | 3 | 2 |
| 2026 | 3 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Offshore and marine vessel-based nuclear reactor configuration, deployment and operation5 May 2026US 12,620,501 B2Energie propre Prodigy Ltee / Prodigy Clean Energy Ltd.
- Fuel handling system, layout, and process for nuclear reactor17 Feb 2026US 12,555,694 B2TerraPower, LLC
- Systems for underwater tool positioning9 Dec 2025US 12,494,297 B2GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC
- Fuel handling system, layout, and process for nuclear reactor12 Aug 2025US 12,387,856 B2TerraPower, LLC
- Chain container reactor6 Aug 2026US 2026/0229374 A1Unists
- Offshore and marine vessel-based nuclear reactor configuration, deployment and operation2 Jul 2026US 2026/0188534 A1Energie propre Prodigy Ltee / Prodigy Clean Energy Ltd.
- Fuel handling system, layout, and process for nuclear reactor25 Jun 2026US 2026/0179795 A1TerraPower, LLC
- Nuclear reactor system with lift-out core assembly30 Apr 2026US 2026/0120900 A1Radiant Industries, Incorporated
- Method of magnetically removing an irradiated capsule from a burnable absorber rodlet20 Mar 2025US 2025/0095873 A1Westinghouse Electric Corp.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Alignment pin and method for aligning a nuclear fuel assembly with respect to a core plate disposed in a nuclear reactor pressure vessel18US 5,490,190 AWestinghouse Electric Corp. · 1996
- System for automatic refueling of a nuclear reactor14US 5,490,185 AWestinghouse Electric Corp. · 1996
- Systems and methods for maintaining cover gas in nuclear reactors13US 11,031,140 B2GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC · 2021
- Systems and methods for retaining and removing irradiation targets in a nuclear reactor11US 9,208,909 B2GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC · 2015
- Fasteners for nuclear reactor systems8US 10,304,570 B2NuScale Power, LLC · 2019