US Patent Issued to Hefei Institute of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences on July 21 for "Solid lithium-lead blanket for fusion reactor" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,943, issued on July 21, was assigned to Hefei Institute of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Hefei, China).

"Solid lithium-lead blanket for fusion reactor" was invented by Kecheng Jiang (Hefei, China), Songlin Liu (Hefei, China), Lei Chen (Hefei, China), Xuebin Ma (Hefei, China), Qingjun Zhu (Hefei, China) and Xiaoman Cheng (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a solid lithium-lead blanket for a fusion reactor, where a solid lithium-lead alloy is adopted as a neutron multiplier and a tritium breeder, and is placed in a form of a unitary or binary pebble bed inside a structural skeleton composed of str...