US Patent Issued to SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION on March 17 for "Micro nuclear reactor having a heat pipe extending into a core comprising fuel particles mixed with moderator particles, where the particles can be gravity discharged from the core through a bottom outlet" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,088, issued on March 17, was assigned to SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Micro nuclear reactor having a heat pipe extending into a core comprising fuel particles mixed with moderator particles, where the particles can be gravity discharged from the core through a bottom outlet" was invented by Eung Soo Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Hyung Jin Shim (Seoul, South Korea), Dokyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Young In Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Dong Hyuk Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Young Beom Jo (Changwon-si, South Korea), Jin Woo Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Hoon Chae (Seoul, South Korea), Su-San Park (Busan, South Korea) and Jinhyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

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