US Patent Issued to Xi'an Jiaotong University on April 14 for "Method and system for evaluating melt fragmentation in sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR)" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,157, issued on April 14, was assigned to Xi'an Jiaotong University (Xi'an, China).

"Method and system for evaluating melt fragmentation in sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR)" was invented by Bin Zhang (Xi'an, China), Wenpeng Wang (Xi'an, China), Sheng Cao (Xi'an, China), Minghao Hu (Xi'an, China) and Jianqiang Shan (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for evaluating melt fragmentation in a sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR), in which a high-order accurate particle method is adopted to discretely solve a corresponding model and calculate the melt fragmentation process in the SFR. A least-squares moving particle semi-impl...