G21C 7/02
Control of nuclear reaction: by using self-regulating properties of reactor materials
Official title: by using self-regulating properties of reactor materials, {e.g. Doppler effect}(arrangements that involve temperature stability G21C7/32)
G21C7/02 (Control of nuclear reaction: by using self-regulating properties of reactor materials) appears on 100 US grants and 91 published applications in this corpus.
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Granted patents
Recent patents
- Nuclear reactors having liquid metal alloy fuels and/or moderators4 Aug 2026US 12,700,513 B2
- Method of forming a unitary nuclear fuel segment by heat bonding a thermally conductive layer deposited on a first fuel layer to a thermally conductive layer deposited on a second fuel layer13 Jan 2026US 12,525,368 B2Westinghouse Electric Corp.
- Adjusting wait time between burn cycles or merging burn cycles28 Oct 2025US 12,456,557 B2Standard Nuclear, Inc.
- Passive reactivity control in a nuclear fission reactor8 Apr 2025US 12,272,466 B2TerraPower, LLC
- Using xenon concentration in controlling a nuclear power plant7 Jan 2025US 12,191,044 B2Framatome
- Burnable absorber tristructural isotropic particles and related methods and fuel compacts10 Sep 2026US 2026/0269090 A1Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC
- Gpu-accelerated digital twin system for real-time thermal-hydraulic simulation and control of space nuclear reactors16 Jul 2026US 2026/0204445 A1Hgp Intelligent Energy, LLC
- Nuclear fuel assembly and a method of manufacture thereof28 May 2026US 2026/0148872 A1Westinghouse Electric Corp.
- High-porosity ceramic burnable absorbers4 Dec 2025US 2025/0372272 A1Standard Nuclear, Inc.
- Boiling fuel fast neutron nuclear reactor12 Jun 2025US 2025/0191792 A1
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- Destruction of plutonium47US 5,513,226 AGeneral Atomics · 1996
- Reactor core and method for operating nuclear reactor36US 6,925,138 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba · 2005
- Nuclear reactor core having nuclear fuel and composite burnable absorber arranged for power peaking and moderator temperature coefficient control27US 5,075,075 AWestinghouse Electric Corp. · 1991
- Burnable absorber arrangement for fuel bundle25US 4,629,599 AGeneral Electric Company · 1986
- Nuclear fuel rod with burnable plate and pellet-clad interaction fix24US 4,636,352 AWestinghouse Electric Corp. · 1987