US 12,394,531 B2
Reactor building and vessel systems
Jacob DeWitte, Mountain View, CA (US); Caroline Cochran, Mountain View, CA (US); Nathan Graff, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Patrick Everett, San Francisco, CA (US); Joshua G. Richard, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Alex Renner, Silverthorne, CO (US); David Hawn, Houston, TX (US); and John Hanson, Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Assigned to Oklo Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/905,987
Filed by OKLO, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
PCT Filed Mar. 8, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/021394
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 9, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/183452, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 16, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/987,705, filed on Mar. 10, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/987,115, filed on Mar. 9, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0102811 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. G21C 13/10 (2006.01); G21C 11/02 (2006.01); G21C 13/024 (2006.01); G21C 13/028 (2006.01); G21C 13/093 (2006.01); G21C 15/253 (2006.01); G21C 15/257 (2006.01); G21D 1/02 (2006.01); H02S 10/00 (2014.01)
CPC G21C 13/10 (2013.01) [G21C 11/026 (2013.01); G21C 13/024 (2013.01); G21C 13/028 (2013.01); G21C 13/093 (2013.01); G21C 15/253 (2013.01); G21C 15/257 (2013.01); G21D 1/02 (2013.01); H02S 10/00 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A nuclear power system, comprising:
one or more nuclear reactor systems; and
an air cooling system comprising:
a building structure that comprises at least two exterior side walls and two end walls, at least one of the exterior side walls angled non-orthogonally relative to a floor of the building structure, the at least two exterior side walls configured to converge at a top apex of the building structure and diverge at the floor of the building structure, the at least two exterior side walls and two end walls defining an interior volume of the building structure, the one or more nuclear reactor systems mounted at least partially in the interior volume of the building structure;
one or more fluid-cooled heat exchanger systems mounted at least partially to at least one of the exterior side walls and in thermal communication with the one or more nuclear reactor systems; and
an airflow path defined within the building structure and configured to circulate air within the interior volume of the building structure from the one or more nuclear reactor systems towards the top apex of the building structure and downward along an interior surface of the at least one of the exterior side walls to transfer heat from the air to an environment external to the building structure through the one or more fluid-cooled heat exchanger systems.