US Patent Issued to BWXT mPower on Jan. 20 for "Passive techniques for long-term reactor cooling" (Virginia, North Carolina, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,165, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to BWXT mPower Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Passive techniques for long-term reactor cooling" was invented by John D. Malloy III (Goode, Va.), Billy E. Bingham (Lynchburg, Va.), Ronald C. Watson (Forest, Va.), Jason G. Williams (Concord, Va.), Matthew W. Ales (Puyallup, Wash.), James B. Inman (Forest, Va.) and Sean M. Boyle (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a pressurized water reactor (PWR), emergency core cooling (ECC) responds to depressurization due to a vessel penetration break at the top of the pressure vessel by draining water from a body of water through an injection line into ...