Induced nuclear reactions: processes, systems, and elements inventions 07/08

20080181349 - Nuclear power plant and operation method thereof: A nuclear power plant and method of operation for augmenting a second reactor thermal power output in a second operation cycle to a level larger than a first reactor thermal power output in the previous operation cycle. The plant is equipped, for example, with a reactor; a steam loop comprising... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080181350 - Mox fuel assembly for pressurized nuclear reactors: This invention relates to a MOX fuel assembly for PWRs that enables satisfactorily suppressing a power peaking factor without the necessity of reducing the Pu content per fuel assembly. The MOX fuel assembly has a lattice arrangement in which one or more burnable poison contained UO2 fuel rods and a... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080181351 - Method of suppressing deposition of radioactive isotope: A formic acid aqueous solution that contains Fe (II) ions is produced by dissolving metal iron in a formic acid aqueous solution. Nitrogen is supplied from a nitrogen supply device to a chemical liquid tank and then discharged from a discharge line to reduce the dissolved oxygen concentration in the... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080175345 - Method and sampling system for taking sample from the atmosphere in the reactor containment of a nuclear plant: A sampling system for taking a sample from the atmosphere in a reactor containment of a nuclear plant, includes a sampling line which is connected to a vacuum system and to an analysis system. The sampling line opens into the reactor containment and has a restriction device connected upstream thereof... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080175346 - Energy reactor containment system: An energy reactor containment system comprises an outer containment chamber and an inner containment chamber supported within the outer containment chamber to define a space between respective walls of the inner and outer containment chambers. Water is contained within the space for generating steam which feeds turbine generators. Fuel for... Agent: Ade & Company Inc.

20080165911 - Tool for brushing circumferential welds in restricted access areas: A tool assembly provides for brushing circumferential welds in a restrictive access area between a cylindrical inner member and a cylindrical outer member such as the shroud and vessel in a nuclear reactor. The tool assembly includes a circumferential plate sized larger than an outside diameter of the inner member... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.

20080165912 - Clad tube for nuclear fuel: A rhenium lined niobium alloy tube for use as a clad tube for nuclear fuel in a nuclear reactor. The tube is produced by an electro deposit process. A graphite mandrel is placed in the electro deposit chamber as the cathode material. Refined rhenium stock is used as the anode... Agent: Bwx Technologies, Inc. Law Department - Intellectual Property

20080159461 - Apparatus and process for generating nuclear heat: A deuterium-fueled heat source that utilizes solid state electrolysis device(s) that deposit D atoms onto, and remove D atoms from, a metal reactor plate containing deuterium diffusion-impeding inclusions.... Agent: Melvin L. Crane

20080159462 - Single cycle and equilibrium fuel loading method and system to reduce cycle outage in a boiling water nuclear reactor: A method for generating fuel loading data for a core in a nuclear reactor, wherein the core includes an array of fuel locations in the core, the method includes: defining an even cycle bundle shift map of fuel bundles to be shifted to another core location during an even fuel... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye P.c.

20080159463 - Handoff methods and assemblies for refueling a nuclear reactor: Systems and methods for refueling a nuclear reactor that has a reactor core in a reactor pool having a plurality of elongated reactor core components, a fuel pool for storing core components, and a transfer channel connecting the fuel pool to the reactor pool. The method includes retrieving a replacement... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080159464 - Head-end process for the reprocessing of reactor core material: In a head-end process for the reprocessing of reactor core material with embedded fuel particles, reactor core material is arranged in a reactor containing a fluid. The reactor comprises a voltage discharge installation in the fluid. Voltage discharges are applied through the fluid for fragmenting the fuel particles into fragmentation... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080159465 - Fast reactor: To provide a fast reactor having improved structural reliability and excellent safety. A fast reactor 1 comprises: a reactor vessel 7 accommodating therein a reactor core 2 and a primary coolant 5; an intermediate heat exchanger 15 disposed in the reactor vessel 7, for transferring a heat energy of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080159466 - Fuel assembly for a pressurized water reactor: A fuel assembly for a pressurized water nuclear reactor includes a multiplicity of fuel rods which extend in a longitudinal direction and are guided in a plurality of spacers that are spaced apart from one another axially. The spacers of an upper region have a lower flow resistance in a... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP