US Patent Issued to FRAMATOME on July 1 for "Method for monitoring a nuclear core comprising a relaxation of a threshold, and associated programme, support and nuclear reactor" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,579, issued on July 1, was assigned to FRAMATOME (Courbevoie, France).

"Method for monitoring a nuclear core comprising a relaxation of a threshold, and associated programme, support and nuclear reactor" was invented by Christian Royere (Clamart, France) and Christophe Lasne (Puteaux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is for monitoring a nuclear reactor comprising a core in which fuel assemblies are loaded, each assembly comprising nuclear fuel rods each including nuclear fuel pellets and a cladding surrounding the pellets. The method includes determining (100) at least one operating time limit (TFPPI) for the extended re...