Patent ID: 9183953
Filing Date: 2015-11-10
Classification: G21C,Y02E

Abstract:
1. A nuclear fission reactor comprising: a reactor vessel; a fission region within the reactor vessel; a fertile blanket region in the reactor vessel, the fertile blanket region being in hydraulic communication with the fission region and neutronic communication with the fission region; a solution, received in the fission region and the fertile blanket region, the solution including a first fissile nuclear fission fuel material dissolved in neutronically translucent liquid carrier material; and a solid, undissolved fertile nuclear fission fuel material in the fertile blanket region and in direct physical contact with the solution, the fertile nuclear fission fuel material being transmutable into a second fissile nuclear fission fuel material, the second fissile nuclear fission fuel material being diffusible directly into the solution within the reactor vessel.