Anatoly I Blanovsky

US Patent:

20080232533, Sep 25, 2008

Filed:

Feb 15, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/354480

Inventors:

Anatoly Blanovsky - Los Angeles CA, US

International Classification:

G21G 1/06

US Classification:

376172

Abstract:

A process to safely convert about 95% of the nuclear waste into a usable fuel source is disclosed. The process, involving a sub-critical power reactor and a proliferation-resistant fuel cycle, consumes depleted uranium or thorium fuel with fissionable fuel, including reactor or weapons-grade plutonium. The reactor is comprised of coaxial neutron and energy-amplifying regions separated by moderating and thermal neutron absorbing layers. Control of the water or gas-cooled reactor is provided by plutonium-helium loops with a variable volume flow rate and an external source of neutrons that quickly reacts to any fluctuations of the reactor parameters. A second embodiment of the invention is a compact sub-critical propulsion reactor utilizing fission electric cell and thermo-acoustic technology for electrical power generation.

US Patent:

62473670, Jun 19, 2001

Filed:

Apr 13, 1999

Appl. No.:

9/291404

Inventors:

Yoseph Bar-Cohen - Seal Beach CA
Susan Kersey - Westminster CA
Cedric Daksla - Oxnard CA
Anatoly Blanovsky - Los Angeles CA

Assignee:

California Institute of Technology - Pasadena CA

International Classification:

G01P 2904

US Classification:

73628

Abstract:

A system which rapidly determines the elastic stiffness constants of materials in plate shape as well as characterize material flaws that are affecting these constants. Rapid (below a minute) nondestructive evaluation system allow for the determination of material stiffness constants, low noise data acquisition algorithm for measuring spectral data. A real time method of displaying leaky Lamb wave spectral data.

US Patent:

20150098544, Apr 9, 2015

Filed:

Oct 9, 2013

Appl. No.:

14/050265

Inventors:

Anatoly Blanovsky - Los Angeles CA, US

International Classification:

G21C 1/28

US Classification:

376246, 376348

Abstract:

A light water reactor to safely convert depleted uranium into a fuel source that could be used as a sustainable source of energy for centuries. The reactor is a type of breed-burn reactor uniquely combined with a proliferation-resistant fuel cycle with no uranium enrichment and no plutonium isolation. It is comprised of a compact factory-produced fast region and a thermal region that produces about 95% of the core power and contains the passageways for transports of delayed-neutron emitters to the fast region, where they can provide additional neutrons (source-based mode) or all the necessary excitation without an external neutron source (self-regulating mode). A second embodiment of the invention is a small unit driven by a neutron source with beam recycling for propulsion, electrical power or radioisotope production. It could also serve as a demonstration facility for the transmutation reactor with fission-fusion fuel.