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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6597755 | Apparatus and method for installing nuclear reactors A nuclear power plant (18) and its heat exhanger (26) are enclosed in an envelope (22) which is suspended above a bored shaft (14) from a support stem (30). When appropriate, the stem (30) can be melted by a furnace (34) to drop the envelope (22) to the b... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6003809 | Process and apparatus for discouraging countermeasures against a weapon transport device A weapon transport device transports along a path toward a target in hostile territory, (1) a target-intended weapon and (2) biological, chemical and/or radioactive agents for attacking the occupants of such territory should they execute countermeasures a... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5199671 | Extraterrestrial transportation apparatus and methods Greatly reduced costs for the transportation of small cargoes that can withstand extremely high decelerations and of materials from Earth and of lunar materials to a low Earth orbiting satellite is obtained by having such materials and cargoes in a crash-... | 04/06/1993 |
| 4790735 | Materials processing using chemically driven spherically symmetric implosions A system for obtaining spherically symmetrical implosion of sample materials by directing radiant ignition energy onto a target which includes a spherically symmetrical core of selected sample material concentrically surrounded by a shell of high explosiv... | 12/13/1988 |
| 4775120 | Extraterrestrial transportation apparatus and method Greatly reduced cost of extraterrestrial transporation of strong items and materials is obtained through the use of impact into a crash-capturing-containing facility for deceleration. Cargoes from both the Earth and Moon can be cheaply crash-transported t... | 10/04/1988 |
| 4552742 | Materials processing using chemically driven spherically symmetric implosions A system and method for obtaining spherically symmetrical implosion of sample materials by directing radiant ignition energy onto a target which includes a spherically symmetrical core of selected sample material concentrically surrounded by a shell of hi... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4436695 | Larger contained nuclear explosion breeder reactor systems Large falling column-globs of molten sodium are dropped into positions around the center of a large explosion-containing chamber such that most of the effects of neutron-producing bursts, such as high energy photons, neutrons, and highly kinetic ions are ... | 03/13/1984 |
| 4370298 | Contained fission explosion breeder reactor system A reactor system for producing useful thermal energy and valuable isotopes, such as plutonium-239, uranium-233, and/or tritium, in which a pair of sub-critical masses of fissile and fertile actinide slugs are propelled into an ellipsoidal pressure vessel.... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4344913 | Contained nuclear explosion breeder reactor system A large free-falling mass with a hollow vertical hole therethrough is intercepted by a smaller sub-critical high velocity downward traveling mass and with a smaller sub-critical high velocity upward traveling mass. A resulting explosion is contained withi... | 08/17/1982 |
| 4263095 | Device and method for imploding a microsphere with a fast liner A device and method for relativistic electron beam heating of a high-density plasma in a small localized region. A relativistic electron beam generator or accelerator produces a high-voltage electron beam which propagates along a vacuum drift tube and is ... | 04/21/1981 |
| 4156832 | Gas vortex with MHD-drive Apparatus wherein a partially ionized mass of gas is enclosed by a rotationally symmetric, axially elongate housing and set in rotation by a force which arises as a result of a substantially axial magnetic field constant in time and an electric current ha... | 05/29/1979 |
| 4121971 | Pulsed neutron source A system for producing neutron pulses seriatim in which a smaller, high velocity, sub-critical, downward traveling slug intercepts a larger downward falling sub-critical target-mass, both of which have a portion of higher concentration in fissile material... | 10/24/1978 |
| 3967215 | Laser reactor A device producing reactions in the chemical to thermonuclear range and beyond. Physical principles entail pressures, kinetic temperatures, and electromagnetic field strengths obtainable from convergent electromagnetic energy. Process converges closed ele... | 06/29/1976 |
