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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2016
Applicant:
Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation, Seattle, WA (US);
Inventor:
Francesco Venneri, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Assignee:
ULTRA SAFE NUCLEAR CORPORATION, Seattle, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21C 3/62 (2006.01); G21C 3/04 (2006.01); G21C 3/28 (2006.01); G21C 21/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G21C 3/623 (2013.01); G21C 3/044 (2013.01); G21C 3/28 (2013.01); G21C 3/62 (2013.01); G21C 3/626 (2013.01); G21C 21/02 (2013.01); G21C 3/045 (2019.01); Y02E 30/30 (2013.01);
Abstract
A methodology is disclosed for compaction of a ceramic matrix of certain nuclear fuels incorporating neutron poisons, whereby those poisons aid in reactor control while aiding in fuel fabrication. Neutronic poisons are rare-earth oxides that readily form eutectics suppressing fuel fabrication temperature, of particular importance to the fully ceramic microencapsulated fuel form and fuel forms with volatile species.