US Patent Issued to FRAMATOME on March 18 for "Method of determination of a nuclear core loading pattern" (French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,996, issued on March 18, was assigned to FRAMATOME (Courbevoie, France).

"Method of determination of a nuclear core loading pattern" was invented by Thibaut Clouteau (Lyons, France) and Markus Wicklein (Bubenreuth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determination of a nuclear core loading pattern defining the disposition of fuel assemblies. The method includes defining at least one potential core loading pattern and calculating predictive bowing of the fuel assemblies at the end of the operation cycle for each potential core loading pattern. The calculation is carried out by an automatic learning algorithm trained on...