US Patent Issued to Westinghouse Electric on April 7 for "Devices, systems, and methods for cooling a nuclear reactor with hydride moderators" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,530, issued on April 7, was assigned to Westinghouse Electric Co. LLC (Cranberry Township, Pa.).

"Devices, systems, and methods for cooling a nuclear reactor with hydride moderators" was invented by Alexander Whitecross Harkness (Allison Park, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger for cooling a nuclear reactor core is disclosed herein. The heat exchanger can include a first stage including an input configured to receive a working fluid from an external source into the heat exchanger, and a first plenum configured to envelope a moderator heat pipe extending from the nuclear reactor core. The heat exchanger can further in...