US Patent Issued to SHINE Technologies on Dec. 23 for "Segmented reaction chamber for radioisotope production" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,931, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SHINE Technologies LLC (Janesville, Wis.).

"Segmented reaction chamber for radioisotope production" was invented by Gregory Piefer (Janesville, Wis.) and Thomas Rockwell Mackie (Verona, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reactor that is operable to produce an isotope includes a region for containing a controlled nuclear fission reaction, the region segmented into a plurality of independent compartments, each of the compartments for containing a parent material in an aqueous solution that interacts with neutrons to produce the isotope via a fission reaction. Also provided are methods of produ...