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Patent No.:

US 12046382 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2024

Filed:

Sep. 20, 2021

Method, system, and apparatus for the thermal storage of nuclear reactor generated energy

Applicant:

Terrapower, Llc, Bellevue, WA (US);

Inventors:

Roderick A Hyde, Redmond, WA (US);

Muriel Y Ishikawa, Livermore, CA (US);

Clarence T Tegreene, Bellevue, WA (US);

Joshua C Walter, Kirkland, WA (US);

Lowell L Wood, Jr., Bellevue, WA (US);

Victoria Y. H. Wood, Livermore, CA (US);

Assignee:

TERRAPOWER, LLC, Bellevue, WA (US);

Attorneys:

FisherBroyles, LLP

Jeremy P. Sanders

Primary Examiner:

Lily C Garner

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21D 3/00 (2006.01); F01K 3/00 (2006.01); F01K 3/18 (2006.01); F01K 13/02 (2006.01); F02C 1/05 (2006.01); G21D 9/00 (2006.01); F28D 17/00 (2006.01); F28D 19/00 (2006.01); F28D 20/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G21D 3/001 (2013.01); F01K 3/00 (2013.01); F01K 3/181 (2013.01); F01K 13/02 (2013.01); F02C 1/05 (2013.01); G21D 9/00 (2013.01); F28D 17/00 (2013.01); F28D 19/00 (2013.01); F28D 20/00 (2013.01); F28D 20/0056 (2013.01); Y02E 30/30 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method, system, and apparatus for the thermal storage of nuclear reactor generated energy including diverting a selected portion of energy from a portion of a nuclear reactor system to an auxiliary thermal reservoir and, responsive to a shutdown event, supplying a portion of the diverted selected portion of energy to an energy conversion system of the nuclear reactor system.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Hyde, Roderick. (2024). Method, system, and apparatus for the thermal storage of nuclear reactor generated energy (U.S. Patent No. 12046382). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12046382

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