ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,367, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to KOREA HYDRO & NUCLEAR POWER Co. LTD. (Gyeongju-si, South Korea).
"Method of dynamic control rod reactivity measurement" was invented by Eun-ki Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of dynamic control rod reactivity measurement for a reactor using a fission chamber as an out-of-reactor measuring instrument includes: maintaining the reactor in a critical state having a set output by inserting a reference control bank into a reactor core to a first depth; completely inserting the reference control bank into the reactor core from the first depth at a maximum allowable sp...