Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method, system, and apparatus for the thermal storage of energy generated by multiple nuclear reactor systems
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Application No.: US12804950Application Date: 2010-08-02
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Publication No.: US09728288B2Publication Date: 2017-08-08
- Inventor: Roderick A. Hyde , Muriel Y. Ishikawa , Clarence T. Tegreene , Joshua C. Walter , Lowell L. Wood, Jr. , Victoria Y. H. Wood
- Applicant: Roderick A. Hyde , Muriel Y. Ishikawa , Clarence T. Tegreene , Joshua C. Walter , Lowell L. Wood, Jr. , Victoria Y. H. Wood
- Applicant Address: US WA Bellevue
- Assignee: TerraPower, LLC
- Current Assignee: TerraPower, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Bellevue
- Main IPC: G21D7/00
- IPC: G21D7/00 ; G21D3/00 ; F01K3/00 ; F01K13/02 ; F02C1/05 ; G21D9/00

Abstract:
A method, system, and apparatus for the thermal storage of energy generated by multiple nuclear reactor systems including diverting a first selected portion of energy from a portion of a first nuclear reactor system of a plurality of nuclear reactor systems to at least one auxiliary thermal reservoir, diverting at least one additional selected portion of energy from a portion of at least one additional nuclear reactor system of the plurality of nuclear reactor systems to the at least one auxiliary thermal reservoir, and supplying at least a portion of thermal energy from the auxiliary thermal reservoir to an energy conversion system of a nuclear reactor of the plurality of nuclear reactors.
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