US Patent Issued to Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power on June 23 for "Cutting apparatus for fuel basket containing spent nuclear fuel in heavy water reactor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,723, issued on June 23, was assigned to Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. Ltd. (Gyeongju-si, South Korea).

"Cutting apparatus for fuel basket containing spent nuclear fuel in 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), Jun-Sang Jang (Seoul, South Korea) and Tae-Su Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

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