US Patent Issued to Abilene Christian University on Sept. 30 for "Fission product extraction system and methods of use thereof" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,253, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Abilene Christian University (Abilene, Texas).

"Fission product extraction system and methods of use thereof" was invented by Kim Pamplin (Abilene, Texas) and Diego Zometa (Abilene, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A molten salt reactor system may produce fission products, such as molybdenum-99, which may be extracted by an extraction system. The extraction system may be configured to sparge the molten fuel salt with an inert gas to dislodge gaseous fission products from the molten fuel salt, so that the gaseous fission products flow through an off-gas outlet into a gas transfer assembly....