US Patent Issued to Westinghouse Electric on Sept. 9 for "Fuel rod having heat transfer liquid filling the gap between fuel pellets and cladding tube" (Pennsylvania, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,672, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Westinghouse Electric Co. LLC (Cranberry Township, Pa.).

"Fuel rod having heat transfer liquid filling the gap between fuel pellets and cladding tube" was invented by Edward J. Lahoda (Edgewood, Pa.), Peng Xu (Columbia, S.C.), Lu Cai (Columbia, S.C.), Yun Long (Allison Park, Pa.) and John Lyons (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improvement in a nuclear fuel rod is disclosed. The improved fuel rod includes a cladding tube, a plurality of fuel pellets stacked within the cladding tube, and a liquid material filling the gap between the fuel pellets and the cladding tube. The liquid mat...