US Patent Issued to Westinghouse Electric on June 3 for "System and method for local resistivity measurement and critical heat flux calculation for nuclear reactor cladding tubing" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,519, issued on June 3, was assigned to Westinghouse Electric Co. LLC (Cranberry Township, Pa.).

"System and method for local resistivity measurement and critical heat flux calculation for nuclear reactor cladding tubing" was invented by Guoqiang Wang (Murrysville, Pa.), William A. Byers (Murrysville, Pa.), Stephen J. Harding (Leechburg, Pa.) and Kevin A. Harding (Saxonburg, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a voltage drop measurement system and methods for measuring resistivity of a nuclear reactor cladding. The system includes a short cladding sample of a nuclear reactor cladding. Two electrically conductive plugs are ...