G21C 3/045
Pellets
Official title: {Pellets}
G21C3/045 (Pellets) appears on 90 US grants and 136 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G21C- Granted patents
- 90
- Published applications
- 136
- Assignees
- 44
- Inventors
- 287
- Latest grant
- 4 Aug 2026
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| 2007 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 2 |
| 2012 | 2 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 4 |
| 2014 | 1 | 6 |
| 2015 | 1 | 5 |
| 2016 | 2 | 6 |
| 2017 | 7 | 12 |
| 2018 | 8 | 7 |
| 2019 | 5 | 9 |
| 2020 | 8 | 19 |
| 2021 | 10 | 14 |
| 2022 | 16 | 15 |
| 2023 | 9 | 12 |
| 2024 | 10 | 13 |
| 2025 | 6 | 3 |
| 2026 | 4 | 5 |
By publication year. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Fuel element with multi-smear density fuel4 Aug 2026US 12,700,514 B2TerraPower, LLC
- Method for preparing UO2 mixture powder for nuclear fuel manufacturing by means of IBC blender, and UO2 mixture powder for nuclear fuel manufacturing, prepared thereby21 Jul 2026US 12,688,944 B2Kepco Nuclear Fuel Co., Ltd.
- Micro-reactor fuel sleeve assembly10 Mar 2026US 12,573,509 B2Westinghouse Electric Corp.
- Method for producing pelletized fuel from uranium-molybdenum powders13 Jan 2026US 12,525,369 B2Joint-Stock Company “Tvel”
- High density UO2 and high thermal conductivity UO2 composites by spark plasma sintering (SPS)18 Nov 2025US 12,476,016 B2University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
- Swell Resistant Fuel Pellets and Methods of Manufacture Thereof20 Aug 2026US 2026/0245750 A1
- Coextruded fuel pellets and methods of manufacture thereof20 Aug 2026US 2026/0245755 A1
- Integral burnable coating for resisting fuel fragmentation, relocation, and dispersal and pellet-cladding bond formation6 Aug 2026US 2026/0229375 A1Westinghouse Electric Corp.
- Nuclear fuel pellet with radially variable enrichment23 Jul 2026US 2026/0213028 A1
- Non-liquid manufacture for uranium bearing kernel19 Mar 2026US 2026/0081043 A1Westinghouse Electric Corp.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method for fabrication of fully ceramic microencapsulation nuclear fuel18US 10,109,378 B2Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation · 2018
- Fully ceramic micro-encapsulated (FCM) fuel for CANDUs and other reactors17US 10,032,528 B2Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation · 2018
- Dispersion ceramic micro-encapsulated (DCM) nuclear fuel and related methods16US 9,620,248 B2Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation · 2017
- Dispersion ceramic micro-encapsulated (DCM) nuclear fuel and related methods14US 10,475,543 B2Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation · 2019
- Functionally graded lattice cermet fuel structure with shape corresponding to a mathematically-based periodic solid, particularly for nuclear thermal propulsion applications9US 11,424,041 B2BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC · 2022