Nuclear reactor

Claim 1

A NECULAR REACTOR COMPRISING A GENERALLY CYLINDRICAL HOUSING; THREE SUPPORT POSITIONED WITHIN SAID HOUSING IN PARALLEL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE AXIS OF SAID HOUSING AND IN SPACED RELATIONSHIP WITH ONE ANOTHER TO FORM THE CORNER OF AN EQUILATERAL TRINAGLE IN A PLANE PERPENDICULAR TO THE AXIS OF SAID HOUSING; A PLURALITY OF FIRST CIRCULAR PLAES POSITIONED IN SOACED RELATIONSHIP WITH ONE ANOTHER WITHIN SAID HOUSING COAXIAL WITH AND SURROUNDING THE FIRST OF SAID SUPPORT RODS; A PLURALITY OF SECOND CIRCULAR PLATES POSITIONED IN SPACED RELATIONSHIP WITH ONE ANOTHER WITHIN SAID HOUSING COAXIAL WITH AND SURROUNDING THE SECOND OF SAID IN SPACED RELATIONSHIP WITH ONE ANOTHER WITHIN SAID HOUSING COAXIAL WITH AND SURROUNDING THE THIRD OF SAID SUPPORT RODS; SAID FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD PLATES BEING POSITIONED ALTERNATELY IN A DIRECTION PARALLEL TO THE AXIS OF SAID HOUSING, SAID PLATES BEING SPACED FROM ONE ANOTHER AND BEING OF SUCH SIZE AS TO OVERLAP AT THE CENTER OF SAID HOUSING; MEANS TO ROTATE SAID FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD PLATES ABOUT SAID FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD SUPPORT RODS, RESPECTIVELY; PLATES OF NEUTRON MODERATOR MATERIAL ENCLOSING SAID FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD PLATES; SAID FIRST, SECONS AND THIRD PLATES BEING FORMED AT LEAST IN PART OF FISSIONABLE MATERIAL SO THAT SAID AVERLAPPING SECTIONS FORM A CRITICAL MASS TO SUSTAIN A NUCLEAR REACTION; AT LEAST ONE CONTROL ELEMENT OF A NEUTRON ABSORBING MATERIALS ADJUSTABILTY POSISTIONED WITHIN SAID HOUSING; MEANS TO CIRCULATE A COOLANT THROUGH SAID HOUSING SO THAT SAID COOLANT IS IN CONTINUOUS HEAT EXCHANGE RELATIONSHIP WITH SAID FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD PLATES.