US PATENT SUBCLASS 376 / 361
.~ Circulating fluid within reactor

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376 /   HD   INDUCED NUCLEAR REACTIONS: PROCESSES, SYSTEMS, AND ELEMENTS

347  DF  REACTOR STRUCTURES {7}
361.~ Circulating fluid within reactor {6}
362  DF  .~.~> Fuel assembly supports {2}
366  DF  .~.~> Plural fluids or a fluid in plural phases circulating within reactor (e.g., pressure tube reactors) {3}
381  DF  .~.~> Pebble bed reactor {1}
383  DF  .~.~> Fluid is a gas {3}
395  DF  .~.~> Having specified fluid flow path or pattern within reactor core {4}
402  DF  .~.~> Manipulated or used exterior of reactor core {4}

DEFINITION

Classification: 376/361

Circulating fluid within reactor:

(under subclass 347) Subject matter wherein one of the reactor components is a fluid and is under sufficient pressure as to flow into or within the reactor during its operation.

(1) Note. A patent is placed in this and indented subclasses even if it is not explicit in the claim that a fluid is circulating or flowing if by disclosure the fluid must be or is intended to flow or to circulate.

(2) Note. In the subject matter of this subclass type the flow or circulation may be intermittent or pulsed.

(3) Note. A patent is not placed in this and indented subclasses where there is no flow or circulation but there is a static pressure acting on a fluid.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

354+, for circulating fluids containing the fuel.