US Patent Issued to Framatome on Dec. 16 for "Nuclear reactor head, nuclear reactor comprising such a nuclear reactor head and method of maintaining a nuclear reactor" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,005, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Framatome Inc..

"Nuclear reactor head, nuclear reactor comprising such a nuclear reactor head and method of maintaining a nuclear reactor" was invented by Ryan Melcher (Lynchburg, Va.) and Charles Graves (Forest, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nuclear reactor head (12) comprising a vessel top head (14), a penetration (36) extending through the vessel top head (14) along a penetration axis (B) for allowing passage of a control shaft (34) of a control rod drive mechanism (32) through the vessel top head (14) and to a corresponding control guide tube (30) of the nuclear reactor (2), the pene...