US Patent Issued to HOLTEC INTERNATIONAL on March 3 for "Spent nuclear fuel storage rack system with reactivity controls" (Delaware Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,509, issued on March 3, was assigned to HOLTEC INTERNATIONAL.

"Spent nuclear fuel storage rack system with reactivity controls" was invented by Stephen J. Agace (Middletown, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nuclear fuel storage system comprises a fuel rack immersible in a fuel pool which comprises a baseplate and a cellular body extending from the baseplate. The body comprises plural cell walls arranged to define an array of upwardly open cells each configured to store a nuclear fuel assembly therein. A raised fuel assembly support ring may be disposed at the bottom of each cell on the baseplate to engage and support a fuel asse...