US Patent Issued to Last Energy on Sept. 9 for "System for heat transfer between primary and secondary fluid circuits within a diffusion-bonded pressure vessel wall for a nuclear reactor" (District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,674, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Last Energy Inc. (Washington).

"System for heat transfer between primary and secondary fluid circuits within a diffusion-bonded pressure vessel wall for a nuclear reactor" was invented by Bret Kugelmass (Washington) and Charles Hodson Cole (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a nuclear reactor pressure vessel comprising a heat exchange wall. An interior of the vessel contains nuclear fuel which heats a primary fluid. A primary fluid circuit extends vertically within the wall. The primary fluid circulates in a loop that includes the interior and the primary fluid circuit...