Induced nuclear reactions: processes, systems, and elements inventions 02/07

20070036258 - Process for producing radioactive fluorine compound: P

20070036259 - Batch target and method for producing radionuclide: In a method for producing a radionuclide, a target chamber is filled with target fluid and pressurized. A particle beam is applied to the target chamber to irradiate target material of the target fluid, and the target fluid becomes heated. The heated target liquid may expand out from the target... Agent: The Eclipse Group

20070036260 - Advanced gray rod control assembly: An advanced gray rod control assembly (GRCA) is for a nuclear reactor. The reactor has a plurality of fuel assemblies each including numerous elongated fuel rods supported in an organized array by substantially transverse support grids, and a plurality of guide thimbles disposed through the support grids and along the... Agent: Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC

20070036261 - Plate-type nuclear fuels having regularly arranged coarse spherical particles of u-mo- or u-mo-x alloy and fabrication method thereof: A plate-type nuclear fuel having regularly arranged coarse particles of a gamma-phase U—Mo or U—Mo—X alloy and a fabrication method thereof and, more particularly, to a plate-type nuclear fuel having coarse spherical particles of a stable gamma-phase U—Mo or U—Mo—X alloy arranged regularly on an aluminum cladding in at least... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20070030940 - Neutron beam interaction station and components: In a Neutron Beam Interaction Station neutron particles are bound together to form new heavier nuclear particles. Neutron particle beams are focused in inhomogeneous magnetic fields between magnets in an array of magnets on either side of a neutron beam containment tube. The new particles have industrial, medical, and space... Agent: Willard H. Schmidt

20070030941 - Control rod drive for a nuclear reactor and method for moving a control rod into a reactor core of a nuclear reactor: A control rod drive contains a drive housing, in which a control rod carrying element is moveable between a basic position and an end position. The control rod carrying element is guided over a portion in a throttle bush. Formed across the throttle bush is a free flow cross section... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070030942 - Repair apparatus for a nuclear reactor shroud: The tie rod repair apparatus includes a tie rod secured at its upper end to the shroud flange at the top of the shroud. The lower end of the tie rod passes through an opening in the shroud support plate without imposing a load on the plate. The lower end... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.

20070030943 - Fuel spacer for a nuclear fuel bundle: A spacer for a nuclear fuel assembly includes dividers orthogonally interdigitated relative to one another defining fuel and water rod cells. The dividers defining fuel rod cells have openings carrying an integrally formed spring which projects into the fuel cell to bear the fuel rod in the cell against an... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.

20070025494 - Neutrino telescope: A neutrino telescope is made up of four devices. A neutrino modulating device velocity modulates neutrinos passing through a thin walled steel tube. This encodes the neutrinos as being different than any neutrinos found in nature. The steel tube is electrically driven to its lengthwise resonant frequency. A directive steel... Agent: Leo J. Aubel

20070025495 - Support system for reactor vessel internals: The invention is a support system for use with a reactor vessel that defines a reactor zone and has an inlet manway providing an opening into the reactor zone. The support system comprises a manway insert that is supported by the inlet manway and extends through the opening of the... Agent: Shell Oil Company