Neutronic reactor

Claim 1

A NEUTRONIC REACTOR COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, A CORE CONSISTING OF 169 ELONGATED REGIONS HAVING PARALLEL AXES, A CYLINDRICAL STAINLESS STEEL TUBE DISPOSED WITHIN EACH REGION COAXIALLY ABOUT THE AXIS THEREOF, SAID TUBES CONTACTING EACH OTHER AND BEING ATTACHED TOGETHER FORMING A GENERALLY HEXAGONAL BUNDLE, SAID TUBES HAVING OUTER DIAMETERS OF 1.393 INCHES AND WALL THICKNESSES OF 0.014 INCH AND SAID CORE BEING APPROXIMATELY EIGHTEEN INCHES LONG, AT LEAST 85 FUEL ELEMENTS DISPOSED WITHIN THE TUBES AND ESSENTIALLY UNIFORMLY DISTRIBUTED THROUGHOUT THE COREE OF THE REACTOR, EACH OF SAID FUEL ELEMENTS CONTAINING APPROXIMATELY 828 GRAMS OF URANIUM CONTAINING APPROXIMATIELY 94% U235, THE REGIONS CONTAINING FUEL ELEMENTS CONTAINING 48.77% SODIUM, 17.63% STAINLESS STELL, 8.78% BERYLLIUM, 8.88% URANIUM, 9.48% TITANIUM, AND 6.46% VOID; NOT MORE THAN 17 SODIUMN-CONTAINING ELEMENTS DISPOSED WITHIN CERTAIN TUBES AND ESSENTIALLY UNIFORMLY DISTRIBUTED THROUGHOUT THE CORE OF THE REACTOR, THE REGIONS CONTAINING SODIUM-CONTAINING ELEMENTS CONTAINING 85.96% SODIUM, 5.26% STAINLESS STEEL AND 8.78% BERYLLIUM; AND THE REMAINING TUBES IN THE REACTOR CORE CONTAINING MODERATING ELEMENTS, THE REGIONS CONTAINING MODERATING ELEMENTS CONTAINING 13.15% SODIUM, 5.26% STAINLESS STEEL AND 81.59% BERYLLIUM BY VOLUME; AND A NEUTRON REFLECTOR DISPOSED ABOUT THE CORE OF THE REACTOR.