US Patent Issued to KOREA HYDRO & NUCLEAR POWER on Dec. 9 for "Integrated nuclear reactor system including double containment structure using liquid nitrogen" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,296, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to KOREA HYDRO & NUCLEAR POWER Co. LTD (Gyeongju-si, South Korea).

"Integrated nuclear reactor system including double containment structure using liquid nitrogen" was invented by Hye Young Shin (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an integrated nuclear reactor system including a double containment structure using liquid nitrogen, the nuclear reactor system comprising: a reactor vessel; a reactor core disposed in the reactor vessel; a steam generator disposed in the reactor vessel and located above the reactor core; a first containment vessel surround...