- Patent Title: Nuclear fission reactor fuel assembly and system configured for controlled removal of a volatile fission product and heat released by a burn wave in a traveling wave nuclear fission reactor and method for same
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Application No.: US12459856Application Date: 2009-07-07
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Publication No.: US09659673B2Publication Date: 2017-05-23
- Inventor: Charles E. Ahlfeld , John Rogers Gilleland , Roderick A. Hyde , Muriel Y. Ishikawa , David G. McAlees , Nathan P. Myhrvold , Clarence T. Tegreene , Thomas Allan Weaver , Charles Whitmer , Victoria Y. H. Wood , Lowell L. Wood, Jr. , George B. Zimmerman
- Applicant: Charles E. Ahlfeld , John Rogers Gilleland , Roderick A. Hyde , Muriel Y. Ishikawa , David G. McAlees , Nathan P. Myhrvold , Clarence T. Tegreene , Thomas Allan Weaver , Charles Whitmer , Victoria Y. H. Wood , Lowell L. Wood, Jr. , George B. Zimmerman
- Applicant Address: US WA Bellevue
- Assignee: TerraPower, LLC
- Current Assignee: TerraPower, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Bellevue
- Main IPC: G21C7/00
- IPC: G21C7/00 ; G21C3/00 ; G21C1/02 ; G21C21/02
Abstract:
A nuclear fission reactor fuel assembly and system configured for controlled removal of a volatile fission product and heat released by a burn wave in a traveling wave nuclear fission reactor and method for same. The fuel assembly comprises an enclosure adapted to enclose a porous nuclear fuel body having the volatile fission product therein. A fluid control subassembly is coupled to the enclosure and adapted to control removal of at least a portion of the volatile fission product from the porous nuclear fuel body. In addition, the fluid control subassembly is capable of circulating a heat removal fluid through the porous nuclear fuel body in order to remove heat generated by the nuclear fuel body.
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