US Patent Issued to NuScale Power on June 17 for "Nuclear reactor system based indirect heat cycle management" (Oregon, Virginia, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,663, issued on June 17, was assigned to NuScale Power LLC (Corvallis, Ore.).

"Nuclear reactor system based indirect heat cycle management" was invented by Jose N. Reyes Jr. (Corvallis, Ore.), John Swanson (Glen Allen, Va.), Luis DePavia (Corvallis, Ore.), Francis Y. Tsang (Bellingham, Wash.), Zack Houghton (Salem, Ore.) and Mustafa Aljabery (Eugene, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated system for indirect cycle steam heating comprising a nuclear power module configured to output first steam; a turbine generator configured to receive the first steam and output second steam; a heat exchanger configured to receive water, re...