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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2018
Applicant:
Triad National Security, Llc, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Inventor:
Robert Stowers Reid, Santa Fe, NM (US);
Assignee:
Triad National Security, LLC, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21C 15/257 (2006.01); F28D 15/02 (2006.01); G21C 15/18 (2006.01); F28D 15/06 (2006.01); F28D 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G21C 15/257 (2013.01); F28D 15/0275 (2013.01); F28D 15/06 (2013.01); G21C 15/18 (2013.01); F28D 2021/0054 (2013.01);
Abstract
Technique(s) to mitigate creep and/or cascade failure in high temperature heat pipe reactor cores may include gas loading each heat pipe such that when one or more heat pipes in the heat pipe array fail, the adjacent heat pipes can accommodate added heat load with little change in temperature.