Patents by Inventor Gail E. Miller

Gail E. Miller has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Passive lower drywell flooder
    Patent number: 5080857
    Abstract: A nuclear reactor complex includes fusible plugs to prevent water from a wetwell from flowing into a drywell including the reactor vessel. In case the core overheats and molten corium falls to the drywell floor, the heat from the corium melts the fusible plugs and water floods the drywell. The water inhibits a corium-concrete reaction, minimizing pressure increase within the drywell and thus the chances of radioactive materials being released into the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1992
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Gail E. Miller, Craig D. Sawyer