G21C 3/042
Fuel elements comprising casings with a mass of granular fuel with coolant
Official title: {Fuel elements comprising casings with a mass of granular fuel with coolant passages through them}
G21C3/042 (Fuel elements comprising casings with a mass of granular fuel with coolant) appears on 13 US grants and 14 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G21C- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Assignees
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- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 5 Nov 2024
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Destruction of plutonium47US 5,513,226 AGeneral Atomics · 1996
- Nuclear fuel elements made from nanophase materials23US 5,805,657 AThe United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy · 1998
- Gas cooled nuclear fuel element22US 4,759,911 AThe Babcock & Wilcox Company · 1988
- Nuclear propulsion rocket21US 5,410,578 AThe Babcock & Wilcox Company · 1995
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