US Patent Issued to LOKI MMR on Oct. 7 for "Nuclear reactor core architecture with moderator elements inside insulator elements" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,888, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to LOKI MMR INC. (New York).

"Nuclear reactor core architecture with moderator elements inside insulator elements" was invented by Paolo Francesco Venneri (Seattle), Michael John Eades (Seattle), Kelsey Souza (Seattle) and Wesley Deason (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An enhanced architecture for a nuclear reactor core includes: (1) nuclear fuel tiles (S-Block); and (2) a thermal insulator and tube liners with a solid-phase moderator (U-Mod) to improve safety, reliability, heat transfer, efficiency, and compactness. In S-Block, nuclear fuel tiles include a fuel shape designed with an interlo...