US Patent Issued to NAC INTERNATIONAL on Oct. 20 for "Simplified economic ventilated metal storage system (SEVMSS)" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,749, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NAC INTERNATIONAL INC. (Peachtree Corners, Ga.).

"Simplified economic ventilated metal storage system (SEVMSS)" was invented by George Carver (Peachtree Corners, Ga.), Jay Wellwood (Peachtree Corners, Ga.) and Daniel Hays Hogan (Cumming, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are various embodiments of a simplified economic ventilated metal storage system (SEVMSS) for enabling hazardous radioactive spent nuclear fuel in a contaminated pool to be loaded and stored in a metal canister and then placed within a passively ventilated metal overpack on a dry storage pad, without use of a transfe...