US Patent Issued to Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power on June 23 for "Reactor cooling system for disaster accident, and reactor cooling method using same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,098, issued on June 23, was assigned to Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. Ltd. (Gyeongju-si, South Korea).

"Reactor cooling system for disaster accident, and reactor cooling method using same" was invented by Ho Rim Moon (Sejong, South Korea), Sang Hee Kang (Daejeon, South Korea) and Huiun Ha (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is a reactor cooling system for cooling down a reactor damaged by a disaster accident and a reactor cooling method using same using contaminated water generated at a nuclear reactor as a cooling water source for cooling the nuclear reactor after the accident, thereby maximally suppressi...