US Patent Issued to NuScale Power on Jan. 27 for "Passive chemical injection system for controlling a nuclear reaction by delivering a neutron-absorbing chemical into a containment vessel" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,110, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NuScale Power LLC (Corvallis, Ore.).

"Passive chemical injection system for controlling a nuclear reaction by delivering a neutron-absorbing chemical into a containment vessel" was invented by Allyson Callaway (Corvallis, Ore.), Ben Bristol (Philomath, Ore.), Kenneth Rooks (Corvallis, Ore.) and Larry Linik (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nuclear power system has an open volume between containment vessel and a reactor vessel containing a reactor core. Located in the open volume is a container holding a neutron-absorbing chemical in solid form. The container is configured to rele...