Patents by Inventor Henri Lecerf

Henri Lecerf 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).

  • Method for removal of adhering sodium from and storage of irradiated nuclear fuel elements
    Patent number: 3984345
    Abstract: There is described a method for sodium-deactivating and/or stocking irradiated nuclear fuel elements, said elements being contacted with a fluid, in which use is made as fluid, of a molten salt mixture which is uncorrosive for the element stainless steels, inert relative to uranium and plutonium oxides by the deactivating temperature and reactive with sodium metal without producing a detonating gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1974
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1976
    Assignees: Centre d'Etude de l'Energie Nucleaire, C.E.N., E.N.I.-Electrische Nijverheids-Installaties, Belgonucleaire
    Inventors: Paul Raymond Heylen, Jean Van Impe, Henri Lecerf