US Patent Issued to X-ENERGY on Oct. 20 for "System and method for making nuclear fuel elements with a controlled number of nuclear particles" (Tennessee Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,751, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to X-ENERGY LLC (Rockville, Md.).

"System and method for making nuclear fuel elements with a controlled number of nuclear particles" was invented by Brandon Blamer (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical counter is used in a method and system for producing a nuclear fuel element having a known volume of homogeneously distributed nuclear material. The method includes feeding nuclear fuel kernels along a channel having a conveyer configured to transmit the kernels to an exit; driving the conveyer until a target number of kernels exits the channel through the exit; and counting a ...