US Patent Issued to BWXT mPower on Aug. 12 for "Refueling water storage tank (RWST) with tailored passive emergency core cooling (ECC) flow" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,855, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to BWXT mPower Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Refueling water storage tank (RWST) with tailored passive emergency core cooling (ECC) flow" was invented by Ronald C. Watson (Forest, Va.) and John D. Malloy III (Goode, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nuclear reactor comprises a pressure vessel containing a nuclear reactor core. A reactor core cooling system comprises a standpipe including a plurality of orifices in fluid communication with a refueling water storage tank (RWST) to drain water from the RWST into the standpipe, and an injection line configured to drain water from the standpipe to the pr...