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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2017
Filed:
May. 22, 2014
Terrapower, Llc, Bellevue, WA (US);
Charles E. Ahlfeld, LaJolla, CA (US);
Pavel Hejzlar, Kirkland, WA (US);
Roderick A. Hyde, Redmond, WA (US);
Muriel Y. Ishikawa, Livermore, CA (US);
David G. McAlees, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jon D. McWhirter, Kirkland, WA (US);
Nathan P. Myhrvold, Medina, WA (US);
Ashok Odedra, Bellevue, WA (US);
Clarence T. Tegreene, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Joshua C. Walter, Kirkland, WA (US);
Kevan D. Weaver, Redmond, WA (US);
Thomas Allan Weaver, San Mateo, CA (US);
Charles Whitmer, North Bend, WA (US);
Lowell L. Wood, Jr., Bellevue, WA (US);
George B. Zimmerman, Lafayette, CA (US);
TerraPower, LLC, Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
Illustrative embodiments provide a nuclear fission reactor, that includes a reactor vessel, a nuclear fission fuel element capable of generating a gaseous fission product, a valve body defining a plenum for receiving the gaseous fission product, and a valve in operative communication with the plenum for controllably venting the gaseous fission product from the plenum.