US Patent Issued to HITACHI-GE NUCLEAR ENERGY on June 24 for "Organic iodine remover" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,913, issued on June 24, was assigned to HITACHI-GE NUCLEAR ENERGY LTD. (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Organic iodine remover" was invented by Sohei Fukui (Tokyo), Motoi Tanaka (Ibaraki, Japan), Masaaki Tanaka (Ibaraki, Japan), Fumio Totsuka (Ibaraki, Japan), Tomoharu Hashimoto (Ibaraki, Japan) and Kazuo Tominaga (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As an organic iodine remover that removes organic iodine in a containment vessel of a nuclear reactor, an organic agent (for example, an ionic liquid, an interfacial active agent, a quaternary salt, or a phase transfer catalyst) having a function of dissolving and decomposing the organic iod...