ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,249, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Oklo Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Nuclear reactor for heat and power generation" was invented by Jacob DeWitte (Mountain View, Calif.) and Patrick Everett (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nuclear reactor power system includes: a reactor core comprising a plurality of nuclear fuel elements, each nuclear fuel element comprising: a first cooling channel passing through the nuclear fuel element; and a second cooling channel passing through the nuclear fuel element and fluidly isolated from the first cooling channel; a first cooling system configured to transport a first fluid coola...