G21C 3/041
Means for removal of gases from fuel elements
Official title: {Means for removal of gases from fuel elements}
G21C3/041 (Means for removal of gases from fuel elements) appears on 23 US grants and 15 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G21C- Granted patents
- 23
- Published applications
- 15
- Assignees
- 15
- Inventors
- 62
- Latest grant
- 4 Aug 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 9 | 0 |
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| 2023 | 1 | 3 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Nuclear reactors having liquid metal alloy fuels and/or moderators4 Aug 2026US 12,700,513 B2
- High efficiency foam compacts for TRISO fuels24 Dec 2024US 12,176,114 B2UT-Battelle, LLC
- Nuclear reactors having liquid metal alloy fuels and/or moderators25 Jul 2023US 11,710,577 B2NuScale Power, LLC
- Nuclear-fuel sintered pellets based on oxide in which fine precipitate material is dispersed in circumferential direction and method of manufacturing same23 Aug 2022US 11,424,042 B2Kepco Nuclear Fuel Co., Ltd.
- Method to pressurize sic fuel cladding tube before end plug sealing by pressurization pushing spring loaded end plug29 Jun 2021US 11,049,622 B2Westinghouse Electric Corp.
- Nuclear reactors having liquid metal alloy fuels and/or moderators23 Nov 2023US 2023/0377763 A1NuScale Power, LLC
- High efficiency foam compacts for triso fuels29 Jun 2023US 2023/0207142 A1UT-Battelle, LLC
- Control of noble gas bubble formation in a molten salt reactor22 Jun 2023US 2023/0197299 A1
- Method to pressurize sic fuel cladding tube before end plug sealing by pressurization pushing spring loaded end plug2 Dec 2021US 2021/0375494 A1Westinghouse Electric Corp.
- Nuclear-fuel sintered pellets based on oxide in which fine precipitate material is dispersed in circumferential direction and method of manufacturing same1 Jul 2021US 2021/0202115 A1Kepco Nuclear Fuel Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Vented nuclear fuel element17US 3,996,100 AHitachi, Ltd. · 1976
- Vented nuclear fuel element13US 4,163,689 AThe United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy · 1979
- Fuel element having variable orifice9US 3,976,542 AGeneral Atomic Company · 1976
- Vented nuclear fuel element8US 3,954,559 AHitachi, Ltd. · 1976
- Modular nuclear fission waste conversion reactor7US 9,767,926 B2General Atomics · 2017