ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,467, issued on April 8, was assigned to Janak H. Handa (Toronto).
"Separation apparatus for high-level nuclear waste" was invented by Sharif Abu Darda (Oshawa, Canada) and Hossam Gaber (North York, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A separation apparatus for separating a supply of high-level nuclear waste (HLW), where the HL nuclear waste is separated into high-mass and low-mass portions. The high-and-low mass portions of the HLW have respective atomic masses that are above and below an atomic mass cut-off point of the separation apparatus. The separation apparatus includes first and second ICP torches that are respectively mount...