Patents Assigned to Touro College
  • Light water breeder reactor using a uranium-plutonium cycle
    Patent number: 4968476
    Abstract: A light water cooled and moderated nuclear reactor for breeding fissile material on a uranium-plutonium cycle and also a method of operating a light water cooled and moderated reactor having a prebreeder section fueled from plutonium extracted from fuel discharged by a uranium burner or converter burner core. Subsequently, the prebreeder section, together with a breeder section, operated as coupled cores or modules, becomes self-sustaining and able to breed fissile plutonium fuels at a relatively high rate of gain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 6, 1990
    Assignee: Touro College
    Inventor: Alvin Radkowsky