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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2020
Filed:
May. 02, 2017
Terrapower, Llc, Bellevue, WA (US);
Charles E. Ahlfeld, La Jolla, CA (US);
Roderick A. Hyde, Redmond, WA (US);
Muriel Y. Ishikawa, Livermore, CA (US);
David G. McAlees, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jon D. McWhirter, Newcastle, WA (US);
Nathan P. Myhrvold, Medina, WA (US);
Ashok Odedra, Bellevue, WA (US);
Clarence T. Tegreene, Bellevue, WA (US);
Thomas A. Weaver, San Mateo, CA (US);
Charles Whitmer, North Bend, WA (US);
Victoria Y. H. Wood, Livermore, CA (US);
Lowell L. Wood, Jr., Bellevue, WA (US);
George B. Zimmerman, Lafayette, CA (US);
TERRAPOWER, LLC, Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
A nuclear fission reactor, flow control assembly, methods therefor and a flow control assembly system. The flow control assembly is coupled to a nuclear fission module capable of producing a traveling burn wave at a location relative to the nuclear fission module. The flow control assembly controls flow of a fluid in response to the location relative to the nuclear fission module. The flow control assembly comprises a flow regulator subassembly configured to be operated according to an operating parameter associated with the nuclear fission module. In addition, the flow regulator subassembly is reconfigurable according to a predetermined input to the flow regulator subassembly. Moreover, the flow control assembly comprises a carriage subassembly coupled to the flow regulator subassembly for adjusting the flow regulator subassembly to vary fluid flow into the nuclear fission module.