US Patent Issued on Feb. 24 for "Fission product trap for salt pipe and pump shaft seals and methods of use thereof" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,289, issued on Feb. 24.

"Fission product trap for salt pipe and pump shaft seals and methods of use thereof" was invented by Timothy Head (Abilene, Texas) and Derek Haas (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fission product trap for a reactor system, such as for a pipe connection and/or a pump shaft of a pump of the reactor system, includes a porous container. The porous container may be mounted about the pipe connection and/or pump shaft and include an absorbing material contained therein. The absorbing material may be configured to collect fission products emitted from the pipe connection and/or the pump shaft. The fissio...