Jerold J Guon

39501523, Apr 13, 1976

Oct 3, 1973

5/402937

Jerold Guon - Canoga Park CA

Rockwell International Corporation - El Segundo CA

B01d 4604

55 96

A sintered filter trap is adapted for insertion in a gas stream of sodium vapor to condense and deposit sodium thereon. The filter is heated and operated above the melting temperature of sodium, resulting in a more efficient means to remove sodium particulates from the effluent inert gas emanating from the surface of a liquid sodium pool. Preferably the filter leaves are precoated with a natrophobic coating such as tetracosane.

51125340, May 12, 1992

Mar 5, 1990

7/489296

Jerold Guon - Woodland Hills CA
LeRoy F. Grantham - Calabasas CA
Eugene R. Specht - Simi Valley CA

The United States of America as represented by The United States
Department of Energy - Washington DC

G21G 400

252640

To increase the operating temperature of a reactor, the melting point and mechanical properties of the fuel must be increased. For an actinide-rich fuel, yttrium, lanthanum and/or rare earth elements can be added, as stabilizers, to uranium and plutonium and/or a mixture of other actinides to raise the melting point of the fuel and improve its mechanical properties. Since only about 1% of the actinide fuel may be yttrium, lanthanum, or a rare earth element, the neutron penalty is low, the reactor core size can be reduced, the fuel can be burned efficiently, reprocessing requirements are reduced, and the nuclear waste disposal volumes reduced. A further advantage occurs when yttrium, lanthanum, and/or other rare earth elements are exposed to radiation in a reactor, they produce only short half life radioisotopes, which reduce nuclear waste disposal problems through much shorter assured-isolation requirements.

53909011, Feb 21, 1995

Sep 27, 1993

8/126855

Richard L. Gay - Chatsworth CA
Jerold Guon - Woodland Hills CA
John C. Newcomb - Simi Valley CA
Albert E. Stewart - Lake View Terrace CA

Rockwell International Corporation - Seal Beach CA

C21C 700
B01J 400

266216

A feed system for feeding solid propellant or explosive energetic materials, e. g. in the form of chunks, into a molten salt furnace for destruction of said materials by oxidation with air, while substantially avoiding the danger of detonation of such materials during feeding. The system comprises a feed hopper separated from the molten salt furnace by a barrier such as a concrete wall. The feed hopper is preferably vibrated to move the chunks of waste to an inclined chute which passes through a penetration in the barrier to the furnace, the chute also being preferably vibrated to facilitate passage of the waste material. The chunks of waste are discharged from the inclined chute either directly into the molten salt bath in the furance, or added incrementally thereto by a lock valve arrangement.

42446937, Jan 13, 1981

Feb 28, 1977

5/772627

Jerold Guon - Canoga Park CA

The United States of America as represented by the United States
Department of Energy - Washington DC

G01N 3122
G01N 3320

23230L

A method and composition for detecting the presence of an alkali metal on the surface of a body such as a metal plate, tank, pipe or the like is provided. The method comprises contacting the surface with a thin film of a liquid composition comprising a light-colored pigment, an acid-base indicator, and a nonionic wetting agent dispersed in a liquid carrier comprising a minor amount of water and a major amount of an organic solvent selected from the group consisting of the lower aliphatic alcohols, ketones and ethers. Any alkali metal present on the surface in elemental form or as an alkali metal hydroxide or alkali metal carbonate will react with the acid-base indicator to produce a contrasting color change in the thin film, which is readily discernible by visual observation or automatic techniques.

53486897, Sep 20, 1994

Jul 13, 1993

8/090458

Ricahard L. Gay - Chatsworth CA
Jerold Guon - Woodland Hills CA
John C. Newcomb - Simi Valley CA

Rockwell International Corporation - Seal Beach CA

G21F 900

588 18

A process for destroying alkali metal and alkaline earth metal-containing wastes, such as sodium, by feeding such waste into a molten bath containing a molten salt such as sodium carbonate, or a mixture of salts having a lower melting point, such as a mixture of sodium carbonate and an alkali metal halide, e. g. sodium chloride, or mixtures of alkali metal chlorides, feeding a mixture of carbon dioxide and oxygen into the molten salt bath and reacting the alkali metal or alkaline earth metal such as sodium in the waste with the carbon dioxide and oxygen to form alkali metal carbonate, e. g. sodium carbonate, in the molten salt bath.

55827063, Dec 10, 1996

Jun 2, 1995

8/458527

LeRoy F. Grantham - Calabasas CA
Jerold Guon - Woodland Hills CA
David L. Grimmett - Simi Valley CA
Lowell R. McCoy - Woodland Hills CA
Jeffery J. Roy - Newbury Park CA

Rockwell International Corporation - Seal Beach CA

C25C 334

205 43

A pyrochemical process is utilized to recover 99% of the remaining transuranium materials from plutonium-uranium extraction waste. One step of the overall pyrochemical process involves the electrochemical separation of the waste components. A solid anode and a solid cathode are used in this electrochemical separation step to electrorefine in single or multiple steps. The solid anode and solid cathode are selected from certain preferred anodic and cathodic materials. Where multiple electrorefining steps are used to obtain more complete electroseparation, this is achieved by employing in the multiple electrorefining steps both a solid anode, suitably graphite, and a molten metal anode containing a mixture of the actinide and rare earth elements. This results in greater separation than can be realized through electroseparation by use of either anode alone.