US Patent Issued to NuScale Power on May 12 for "Nuclear reactor-based systems, methods, and devices for energy production and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) capture" (Washington, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,903, issued on May 12, was assigned to NuScale Power LLC (Corvallis, Ore.).

"Nuclear reactor-based systems, methods, and devices for energy production and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) capture" was invented by Francis Y. Tsang (Bellingham, Wash.), Jose N. Reyes Jr. (Corvallis, Ore.) and Luis DePavia (Corvallis, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated energy system comprising a power plant configured to generate steam. The power plant can include a nuclear reactor and/or an electrical power generation system. A chemical products generation system can include a first reaction chamber receiving Sodium Formate (HCOONa) that, via insert...