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Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2017

Filed:

Jan. 25, 2010
Applicants:

Charles E. Ahlfeld, La Jolla, CA (US);

Ehud Greenspan, Emeryville, CA (US);

Roderick A. Hyde, Redmond, WA (US);

Nathan P. Myhrvold, Bellevue, WA (US);

Robert R. Richardson, Silverdale, WA (US);

Joshua C. Walter, Kirkland, WA (US);

Kevan D. Weaver, Redmond, WA (US);

Thomas Allan Weaver, San Mateo, CA (US);

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

George B. Zimmerman, Lafayette, CA (US);

Inventors:

Charles E. Ahlfeld, La Jolla, CA (US);

Ehud Greenspan, Emeryville, CA (US);

Roderick A. Hyde, Redmond, WA (US);

Nathan P. Myhrvold, Bellevue, WA (US);

Robert R. Richardson, Silverdale, WA (US);

Joshua C. Walter, Kirkland, WA (US);

Kevan D. Weaver, Redmond, WA (US);

Thomas Allan Weaver, San Mateo, CA (US);

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

George B. Zimmerman, Lafayette, CA (US);

Assignee:

TerraPower, LLC, Bellevue, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21C 7/30 (2006.01); G21C 7/08 (2006.01); G21C 7/103 (2006.01); G21C 17/035 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G21C 7/08 (2013.01); G21C 7/103 (2013.01); G21C 7/30 (2013.01); G21C 17/035 (2013.01); Y02E 30/34 (2013.01); Y02E 30/39 (2013.01);
Abstract

Illustrative embodiments provide a reactivity control assembly for a nuclear fission reactor, a reactivity control system for a nuclear fission reactor having a fast neutron spectrum, a nuclear fission traveling wave reactor having a fast neutron spectrum, a method of controlling reactivity in a nuclear fission reactor having a fast neutron spectrum, methods of operating a nuclear fission traveling wave reactor having a fast neutron spectrum, a system for controlling reactivity in a nuclear fission reactor having a fast neutron spectrum, a method of determining an application of a controllably movable rod, a system for determining an application of a controllably movable rod, and a computer program product for determining an application of a controllably movable rod.


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