Patents Assigned to Commissiariat a l'Energie Atomique
  • Genetically modified plants and their applications in phytoremediation
    Publication number: 20090155911
    Abstract: Genetically modified plants able to accumulate heavy metals in shoots and methods of removing and possibly recovering said heavy metals, using said genetically modified plants. Said genetically modified plants include more than one copy of at least a sequence encoding a P1B-type ATPase of the Zn<2+>/Co<2+>/Cd<2+>/Pb<2+> subclass and that they overexpress said P1B-type ATPase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2005
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: Commissiariat A L'energie Atomique
    Inventors: Pierre Richaud, Frédéric Verret, Antoine Gravot, Pascaline Auroy, Alain Vavasseur
  • Device for thermal insulation of a vessel wall
    Patent number: 4055465
    Abstract: A thermal insulation structure mounted within the annular space between the primary vessel and the inner vessel of a liquid metal cooled fast reactor is constituted by a plurality of heat-insulating elements extending circumferentially around the common axis of the two vessels and consisting of half-casings each formed by two interengaged L-section members packed with flexible and compressible heat-insulating material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1977
    Assignee: Commissiariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventor: Guy Lemercier