US Patent Issued to Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power on Aug. 25 for "Transport basket for defective spent nuclear fuel of heavy-water reactor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,962, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. Ltd. (Gyeongju-si, South Korea).

"Transport basket for defective spent nuclear fuel of heavy-water reactor" was invented by Sunghwan Chung (Daejeon, South Korea), Yongdeog Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Kiyoung Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Taehyeon Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Donghee Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Jinwon Son (Daejeon, South Korea), Dong-Gyu Lee (Anyang-si, South Korea), In-Su Jung (Daejeon, South Korea), Ke-Hyung Yang (Seoul, South Korea), Jae-Hun Ko (Sejong, South Korea) and Duk-Woon Jung (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The pre...