Elwha LLC

Terrapower, LLC

Ventrk, LLC

Robert C Petroski

Roderick A Hyde

Lowell L Wood, Jr

Jordin T Kare

Muriel Y Ishikawa

Nathan P Myhrvold

Jesse R Cheatham, Iii

Clarence T Tegreene

Victoria Y H Wood

Charles Whitmer

Tony S Pan

David Bazeley Tuckerman

William David Duncan

William Henry Gates, Iii

Elizabeth A Sweeney

Thomas A Weaver

Alistair K Chan

Nicholas W Touran

Craig J Mundie

Philip Andrew Eckhoff

Desney S Tan

Yaroslav Aleksandrovich Urzhumov

Robert W Lord

Richard T Lord

Hon Wah Chin

Edward K Y Jung

Matthew Graham Dyor

Joshua C Walter

Eric Leuthardt

Gary L McKnight

Max Nathan Mankin

Geoffrey Frank Deane

Michael Koenig

Kimberly D A Hallman

Peter N Glaskowsky

Andrew David Wilson

George Beedon Zimmerman

Eric D Rudder

Pavel Hejzlar

Jeannette M Wing

Mark A Malamud

Royce A Levien

Paul Henry Dietz

Tom Driscoll

Pablos Holman

Jon David McWhirter

Max Levchin

Bran Ferren

David R Smith

Paul G Allen

John Rogers Gilleland

Ashok Odedra

John Latham

Richard Glen Ellenbogen

Philip V Bayly

David Lozoff Brody

Raul Radovitzky

Anthony Vinson Smith

W Daniel Hillis

Kevan D Weaver

Steven Nabil Bathiche

Kenneth Paul Hinckley

Anoop Gupta

Howard Lee Davidson

Andreas Georg Nowatzyk

Charles E Ahlfeld

David G McAlees

Nicholas F Pasch

Kevin J Kramer

Danny Allen Reed

Thomas M Burke

Christopher J Johns

Ehud Greenspan

Philip M Schloss

Anselmo T Cisneros, Jr

Bassem S El-Dasher

Jeffery F Latkowski

Robert Alan Corbin

Ken Czerwinski

Brian C Kelleher

David Lawrence Tennenhouse

William M Kerlin

Stephen L Malaska

Nels R Peterson

Christopher Charles Young

Maxime Jean Jerome Bilet

Mark R Werner

Melanie K Kitzan

Brian C Johnson

Edward Stuart Boyden

William Tod Gross

Charles Gregory Freeman

Eun Young Hwang

James M Vollmer

Ryan Abbott

Christopher A Martin

Daniel Flowers

Mark A Havstad

Bill Gross

An integrated energy system includes a nuclear thermal plant situated on a nuclear site. The nuclear thermal plant produces thermal energy that is transported to a thermal energy storage system located outside the nuclear site. The thermal storage system is thermally coupled to a power generation system which is also remote to the nuclear site. By this arrangement, the nuclear thermal plant is isolated and decoupled from the power generation system. The nuclear thermal plant may supply thermal energy upwards of 800° C. or more to be stored at the thermal energy storage system until needed such as for industrial heat, power generation, or other uses. The thermal storage system is source agnostic, and one or more additional thermal energy generators, such as additional nuclear reactors, solar thermal plants, or other thermal energy generators can be coupled to a common thermal storage system and power generation system.

Thermal energy storage system connected to both a nuclear reactor and a power generator

An anti-proliferation technique is disclosed to reduce the likelihood of nuclear proliferation due to the use fissionable fuel salts. The technique includes doping the fuel salt with one or more elements (referred to herein as activation dopants) that, upon exposure to neutrons such as would occur in the fuel salt when a reactor is in operation, undergo a nuclear reaction to, directly or indirectly, form highly active 'protecting isotopes' (of the same element as the activation dopant or a different element). A sufficient mass of activation dopants is used so that the Figure of Merit (FOM) of the fuel salt is decreased to below 1.0 within some target number of days of fission. This allows the FOM of the fuel salt to be controlled so that the fuel becomes too dangerous to handle before to the creation of a significant amount of weaponizable isotopes.

Anti-proliferation safeguards for nuclear fuel salts

Embodiments disclosed herein relate to a garment system including at least one sensor and at least one actuator that operates responsive to sensing feedback from the at least one sensor to cause a flexible compression garment to selectively constrict or selectively dilate, thereby compressing or relieving compression against at least one body part of a subject. Such selective constriction or dilation can improve muscle functioning or joint functioning during use of motion-conducive equipment, such as an exercise bike or rowing machine.

Garment system including at least one sensor and at least one actuator responsive to the sensor and related methods

Disclosed embodiments include nuclear fission reactor cores, nuclear fission reactors, methods of operating a nuclear fission reactor, and methods of managing excess reactivity in a nuclear fission reactor.

Standing wave nuclear fission reactor and methods

Disclosed embodiments include fuel ducts, fuel assemblies, methods of making fuel ducts, methods of making a fuel assembly, and methods of using a fuel assembly. An inner hollow structure has a first geometry and an outer hollow structure has a second geometry different from the first geometry. The first hollow structure is configured to expand in at least one dimension under stress and cause the first hollow structure to contact the second hollow structure. The second hollow structure distributes at least a portion of the stress of the first hollow structure.

Method of making a nuclear reactor fuel duct

Illustrative embodiments provide for the operation and simulation of the operation of fission reactors, including the movement of materials within reactors. Illustrative embodiments and aspects include, without limitation, nuclear fission reactors and reactor modules, including modular nuclear fission reactors and reactor modules, nuclear fission deflagration wave reactors and reactor modules, modular nuclear fission deflagration wave reactors and modules, methods of operating nuclear reactors and modules including the aforementioned, methods of simulating operating nuclear reactors and modules including the aforementioned, and the like.

Enhanced neutronics systems

The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and devices that may be used to incentivize inhaler use.

Systems, methods, and devices to incentivize inhaler use

Systems, methods, computer-readable storage mediums including computer-readable instructions and/or circuitry for control of transmission to a target device with communicating with one or more sensors in an ad-hoc sensor network may implement operations including, but not limited to: receiving electrical power via at least one structurally integrated electrically conductive element; and powering one or more sensing operations of one or more sensors via the electrical power.

Ad-hoc wireless sensor package

Devices, systems, and methods that may be used to controllably deliver alcohol to a subject using an inhaler, wherein the inhaler may include a housing having a flow channel coupled to an ethanol-containing inhalant reservoir, an actuator configured to facilitate release of the inhalant, a constituent sensor, and a control unit. The control unit may accept parameters associated with the subject, create an inhalant delivery regime, and control operation of the actuator based at least partially on a sensed constituent level to facilitate release of an ethanol-containing inhalant from the reservoir into the flow channel in accordance with the regimen.

Methods, systems, and devices related to delivery of alcohol with an inhaler

Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to systems and methods of dispensing one or more medicaments to a subject. The systems and methods utilize at least one flexible compression garment having one or more medicament dispensers therein.

Systems for dispensing a medicament to a subject and related methods

Garment systems including a flexible compression garment, at least one sensor, and at least one therapeutic stimulation delivery device operable responsive to sensing feedback from the at least one sensor, effective to provide therapeutic radiation to a body part of a subject. Methods of using such garment systems are also described.

Garment system including at least one therapeutic stimulation delivery device and related methods

Described embodiments include a system and a method. A system includes a first ultrasound transmitter acoustically coupled to a conducting layer of a display surface and configured to deliver a first ultrasound wave to a selected delineated area. The first ultrasonic wave has parameters sufficient to induce a non-linear vibrational response in the conducting layer. A second ultrasound transmitter is acoustically coupled to the conducting layer and configured to deliver a second ultrasound wave to the selected delineated area. The second ultrasonic wave has parameters sufficient to induce a non-linear vibrational response in the conducting layer. A controller selects a delineated area in response to an indication of a touch to the display surface, and initiates delivery of the first and second ultrasonic waves. A convergence of the first and second ultrasonic waves at the selected delineated area produces a stress pattern perceivable or discernible by the human appendage.

Tactile feedback generated by non-linear interaction of surface acoustic waves

Configurations of molten fuel salt reactors are described that utilize neutron-reflecting coolants or a combination of primary salt coolants and secondary neutron-reflecting coolants. Further configurations are described that circulate liquid neutron-reflecting material around an reactor core to control the neutronics of the reactor. Furthermore, configurations which use the circulating neutron-reflecting material to actively cool the containment vessel are also described.

Molten fuel nuclear reactor with neutron reflecting coolant

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Robert C Petroski