US Patent Issued to Societe Technique pour l'Energie Atomique on June 17 for "Arrangement for checking disengagement between a nuclear reactor control cluster and a drive rod" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,229, issued on June 17, was assigned to Societe Technique pour l'Energie Atomique (Villiers le Bacle, France).

"Arrangement for checking disengagement between a nuclear reactor control cluster and a drive rod" was invented by Michel Brun (Simiane-Collongue, France) and Francois Donnier (Pertuis, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nuclear reactor control assembly includes a reactivity control device comprising a control rod cluster and a drive rod. The control rod cluster comprises an attaching head. The drive rod comprises an attaching device for connecting the drive rod to the attaching head. The attaching device is movable bet...