Patents by Inventor Iain Denniss

Iain Denniss 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).

  • Apparatus for dissolving nuclear fuel
    Patent number: 6740298
    Abstract: A nuclear fuel dissolution apparatus which comprises a perforated sloping ramp contained within a process chamber for containing solvent for the fuel, a pulsation member which in use creates pulses in solvent in the process chamber, the perforations being designed to direct pulses of solvent along and up the ramp, and a discharge point for fuel hulls disposed at an upper region of the ramp is characterised in that the ramp is made out of flat blades and the perforations of the ramp comprise inclined slits formed between the blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: British Nuclear Fuels PLC
    Inventors: Leonid Solomonovich Raginskii, Vyacheslav Evgen'evich Morkovnikov, Nikolai Viktorovich Morozov, Sergei Petrovich Eliseev, Peter Rance, Timothy Tinsley, Iain Denniss