Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Removing heat from a nuclear reactor by having molten fuel pass through plural heat exchangers before returning to core
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Application No.: US16690694Application Date: 2019-11-21
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Publication No.: US11075013B2Publication Date: 2021-07-27
- Inventor: Ryan Abbott , Anselmo T. Cisneros, Jr. , Mark R. Werner
- Applicant: TerraPower, LLC
- Applicant Address: US WA Bellevue
- Assignee: TerraPower, LLC
- Current Assignee: TerraPower, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Bellevue
- Main IPC: G21C1/32
- IPC: G21C1/32 ; G21C3/54 ; G21C5/12 ; G21C1/04 ; G21C3/04 ; G21C5/10 ; G21C5/16 ; G21C11/08 ; G21C1/22

Abstract:
This disclosure describes various configurations and components of a molten fuel fast or thermal nuclear reactor in which one or more primary heat exchangers are located above the reactor core of the nuclear reactor.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200185114A1 VERTICALLY-SEGMENTED NUCLEAR REACTOR Public/Granted day:2020-06-11
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