US Patent Issued to Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy on April 22 for "Chemical decontamination method and chemical decontamination apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,386, issued on April 22, was assigned to Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy Ltd. (Hitachi, Japan).

"Chemical decontamination method and chemical decontamination apparatus" was invented by Takashi Oohira (Hitachi, Japan), Satoshi Oouchi (Hitachi, Japan), Motohiro Aizawa (Hitachi, Japan), Nobuyuki Ota (Hitachi, Japan), Hideyuki Hosokawa (Tokyo), Ryo Hamada (Tokyo), Hiroo Yoshikawa (Osaka, Japan), Naobumi Tsubokawa (Osaka, Japan) and Masahiko Kazama (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a chemical decontamination method and a chemical decontamination apparatus capable of preventing deterioration of a metal ion exchange resin a...