ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,383, issued on April 22, was assigned to TRIAD NATIONAL SECURITY LLC (Los Alamos, N.M.).

"Mobile heat pipe cooled fast reactor system" was invented by Patrick Ray McClure (Los Alamos, N.M.), David Duff Dixon (Elder, S.D.), David Irvin Poston (Los Alamos, N.M.), Richard J. Kapernick (Los Alamos, N.M.), Robert Stowers Reid (Santa Fe, N.M.) and Venkateswara Rao Dasari (Los Alamos, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile heat pipe cooled fast nuclear reactor may be configured for transportation to remote locations and may be able to provide 0.5 to 2 megawatts of power. The mobile heat pipe cooled fast reactor may contain a plurality ...