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Passive cooling system for liquid metal cooled nuclear reactor

EP 0528673 B1 · Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

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  • Filed August 14, 1992 and granted January 17, 1996. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 14, 2012.
  • A supplementary protection certificate, which can extend a medicine or crop-protection patent, adds at most five and a half years, so even that would have ended by February 14, 2018.
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FiledAugust 14, 1992
PublishedFebruary 24, 1993
GrantedJanuary 17, 1996
Term endedAugust 14, 2012
Application numberEP 92307494
Classification (CPC)G21C15/18 +1 more

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