G21C 3/60
Metallic fuel
Official title: Metallic fuel; Intermetallic dispersions
G21C3/60 (Metallic fuel) appears on 66 US grants and 84 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G21C- Granted patents
- 66
- Published applications
- 84
- Assignees
- 59
- Inventors
- 209
- Latest grant
- 5 May 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1978 | 2 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1989 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1992 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 3 | 0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 |
| 2003 | 0 | 2 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 |
| 2005 | 0 | 0 |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 |
| 2007 | 2 | 0 |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 |
| 2010 | 0 | 2 |
| 2011 | 1 | 5 |
| 2012 | 1 | 4 |
| 2013 | 2 | 6 |
| 2014 | 2 | 3 |
| 2015 | 3 | 4 |
| 2016 | 4 | 1 |
| 2017 | 4 | 3 |
| 2018 | 3 | 3 |
| 2019 | 2 | 4 |
| 2020 | 6 | 11 |
| 2021 | 6 | 7 |
| 2022 | 4 | 3 |
| 2023 | 4 | 7 |
| 2024 | 6 | 10 |
| 2025 | 1 | 3 |
| 2026 | 3 | 6 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Fuel assembly5 May 2026US 12,620,499 B2Thorium Power, Inc.
- Nuclear reactor system inside a borehole28 Apr 2026US 12,614,643 B2Deep Fission, Inc.
- Method for producing pelletized fuel from uranium-molybdenum powders13 Jan 2026US 12,525,369 B2Joint-Stock Company “Tvel”
- Heat exchanger in a borehole receives heat through a rock formation from another borehole which includes a nuclear reactor11 Nov 2025US 12,469,612 B2Deep Fission, Inc.
- High efficiency foam compacts for TRISO fuels24 Dec 2024US 12,176,114 B2UT-Battelle, LLC
- Swell Resistant Fuel Pellets and Methods of Manufacture Thereof20 Aug 2026US 2026/0245750 A1
- Integral burnable coating for resisting fuel fragmentation, relocation, and dispersal and pellet-cladding bond formation6 Aug 2026US 2026/0229375 A1Westinghouse Electric Corp.
- Recovery of zr-u metal using eutectic compositions11 Jun 2026US 2026/0159921 A1Westinghouse Electric Corp.
- Micro integral nuclear reactor7 May 2026US 2026/0128185 A1Hadron Energy, Inc.
- Methods of halogenating actinide oxide compounds and related systems2 Apr 2026US 2026/0094730 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Fuel assembly for nuclear reactor and manufacturing method thereof28US 5,596,615 AHitachi, Ltd. · 1997
- Yttrium and rare earth stabilized fast reactor metal fuel23US 5,112,534 AThe United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy · 1992
- Nuclear fuel element20US 4,942,016 AGeneral Electric Company · 1990
- Methods of fabricating metallic fuel from surplus plutonium17US 10,280,527 B2GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC · 2019
- Method of fabricating nuclear fuel10US 4,110,159 ACanadian General Electric Company Limited · 1978