G21C 3/048
Shape of pellets
Official title: {Shape of pellets}
G21C3/048 (Shape of pellets) appears on 20 US grants and 37 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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- Latest grant
- 7 Oct 2025
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Recent patents
- Using additive manufacturing in creating a nuclear fuel structure with a shape corresponding to a mathematically-based periodic solid having a triply periodic minimal surface7 Oct 2025US 12,437,891 B2BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC
- Functionally graded lattice cermet fuel structure with shape corresponding to a mathematically-based periodic solid, particularly for nuclear thermal propulsion applications3 Dec 2024US 12,159,726 B2BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC
- Functionally graded lattice cermet fuel structure with shape corresponding to a mathematically-based periodic solid, particularly for nuclear thermal propulsion applications3 Dec 2024US 12,159,727 B2BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC
- Thorium-based fuel design for pressurized heavy water reactors3 Sep 2024US 12,080,436 B2Clean Core Thorium Energy LLC
- Thorium-based fuel design for pressurized heavy water reactors12 Mar 2024US 11,929,183 B2Clean Core Thorium Energy LLC
- 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
- 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.
- Thorium-based fuel design for pressurized heavy water reactors19 Dec 2024US 2024/0420854 A1Clean Core Thorium Energy LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- 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
- Nuclear reactor green and sintered fuel pellets, corresponding fuel rod and fuel assembly5US 9,042,507 B2Areva Np · 2015
- Pellet handling apparatus and fuel rod loading method1US 10,720,252 B2BWXT mPower, Inc. · 2020
- Reactor fuel pellets with thermally-conductive inserts, and related reactor fuel pellet arrangements1US 11,404,177 B2Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC · 2022
- Thorium-based fuel design for pressurized heavy water reactors1US 11,705,249 B2Clean Core Thorium Energy LLC · 2023