US Patent Issued to KEPCO NUCLEAR FUEL on July 1 for "Device for assembling and disassembling top nozzle of nuclear fuel assembly" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,578, issued on July 1, was assigned to KEPCO NUCLEAR FUEL Co. LTD. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Device for assembling and disassembling top nozzle of nuclear fuel assembly" was invented by Je Won Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Min Kyu Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sung Jun Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is a device for assembling and disassembling a top nozzle of a nuclear fuel assembly wherein the top nozzle of the nuclear fuel assembly is assembled and disassembled with improved convenience, and the load value is measured to ensure stable operations without damaging components. To this end, the device inc...