US Patent Issued to Battelle Energy Alliance on July 1 for "Nuclear reactor and associated components, systems, and methods" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,240, issued on July 1, was assigned to Battelle Energy Alliance LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho).

"Nuclear reactor and associated components, systems, and methods" was invented by Abderrafi M. Ougouag (Idaho Falls, Idaho), Ramazan S. Sen (Idaho Falls, Idaho), George W. Griffith (Idaho Falls, Idaho) and Yasir Arafat (Idaho Falls, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a nuclear power system includes generating heat in a nuclear reactor core, transmitting the heat to a heat engine, generating electricity with a generator operatively coupled to the heat engine. The method further includes detecting a no-load condition, and st...