US Patent Issued to NuScale Power on July 7 for "Stress relieving attachment of tube to tubesheet, such as in a pressure vessel shell of a nuclear reactor power system" (Oregon, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,576, issued on July 7, was assigned to NuScale Power LLC (Corvallis, Ore.).

"Stress relieving attachment of tube to tubesheet, such as in a pressure vessel shell of a nuclear reactor power system" was invented by Tamas R. Liszkai (Corvallis, Ore.) and Todd Sorensen (St Joseph, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Steam generator systems including tubesheet assemblies, such as for use in nuclear reactor systems, and associated devices and methods are described herein. A representative steam generator system can be installed in a nuclear reactor vessel positioned to house a primary coolant. The steam generator system can include a tubes...