ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,512, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to THORIZON HOLDING B.V. (Amsterdam).
"Modular core molten salt nuclear reactor" was invented by Sander De Groot (Amsterdam) and Lucas Marius Pool (Amsterdam).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nuclear reactor circuit contains nuclear fuel-containing molten salt in a channel which is substantially vertically arranged and provides an up-down passage. A modular reactor has removable, individual molten salt nuclear circuits. The channel of one circuit contains a non-critical amount of nuclear material, but the channels together create the critical zone of the reactor core. A method of operating a modula...