US Patent Issued to SHANGHAI NUCLEAR ENGINEERING RESEARCH & DESIGN INSTITUTE on May 5 for "Nuclear reactor comprising a reactor vessel containing a reactor core and an alkali metal thermoelectric converter" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,502, issued on May 5, was assigned to SHANGHAI NUCLEAR ENGINEERING RESEARCH & DESIGN INSTITUTE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Nuclear reactor comprising a reactor vessel containing a reactor core and an alkali metal thermoelectric converter" was invented by Qichang Chen (Shanghai), Cheng Ye (Shanghai), Chuntao Tang (Shanghai), Xujia Wang (Shanghai), Qian Lin (Shanghai), Jinkun Zhao (Shanghai), Weizhong Zhang (Shanghai), Chuntian Yuan (Shanghai), Yalan Qian (Shanghai), Jinming Li (Shanghai) and Wei Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nuclear reactor includes a reactor vessel containing an alkali metal thermoelectric converter. The bo...