US 11,810,680 B2
Modular integrated gas high temperature nuclear reactor
Enrique Velez Lopez, Madrid (ES); and William Robb Stewart, Boston, MA (US)
Assigned to BOSTON ATOMICS, LLC, Boston, MA (US)
Filed by BOSTON ATOMICS, LLC, Boston, MA (US)
Filed on Oct. 9, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/067,425.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/913,215, filed on Oct. 10, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0110944 A1, Apr. 15, 2021
Int. Cl. G21C 1/32 (2006.01); G21C 15/253 (2006.01); G21C 1/08 (2006.01); G21C 11/02 (2006.01); G21C 13/028 (2006.01); G21C 13/00 (2006.01); G21C 21/00 (2006.01); G21C 13/10 (2006.01); G21C 11/08 (2006.01)
CPC G21C 15/253 (2013.01) [G21C 1/08 (2013.01); G21C 11/028 (2013.01); G21C 11/08 (2013.01); G21C 13/00 (2013.01); G21C 13/028 (2013.01); G21C 13/10 (2013.01); G21C 21/00 (2013.01); G21C 1/326 (2013.01)] 31 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A high temperature gas reactor, comprising:
a first high-pressure shell portion having a substantially horizontal first longitudinal axis, the first high-pressure shell portion to accommodate a slidable insertion of at least a portion of a reactor core assembly disposed at least partially in a core barrel, the reactor core assembly having a first end and a second end disposed along the substantially horizontal first longitudinal axis, such that in operation a coolant gas enters the first end of the reactor core assembly at a first temperature and exits the second end of the reactor core assembly at a second temperature greater than the first temperature;
a second high-pressure shell portion having a substantially horizontal second longitudinal axis, the second high-pressure shell portion to accommodate insertion of at least portion of a thermal transfer assembly disposed at least partially in a flow separation barrel, the thermal transfer assembly having a first end and a second end disposed along the substantially horizontal second longitudinal axis, such that in operation the coolant gas at the second temperature from the reactor core assembly enters the first end of the thermal transfer assembly at the second temperature and exits the second end of the thermal transfer assembly at the first temperature; and
at least one coolant gas circulator to receive the coolant gas at the first temperature and cause the coolant gas to return to the reactor core assembly.