US Patent Issued to SMR Inventec on Dec. 30 for "Passively-cooled spent nuclear fuel pool system" (New Jersey, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,230, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SMR Inventec LLC.

"Passively-cooled spent nuclear fuel pool system" was invented by Krishna P. Singh (Jupiter, Fla.) and Joseph Gerald Leo Rajkumar (Cherry Hill, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A passively-cooled spent nuclear fuel pool system comprising a spent nuclear fuel pool having a body of liquid water having a surface level. Spent nuclear fuel is submerged in the body of liquid water. The spent fuel heats the body of liquid water and produces water vapor. A lid covering the spent nuclear fuel pool to form a hermetically sealed vapor space between the surface level of the body of liq...