Patents Assigned to Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute
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Patent number: 10130653Abstract: An absorbable periodontal tissue and bone regeneration material uses bacterial cellulose that has been exposed to radiation. The bacterial cellulose was confirmed to block the invasion of soft tissue in a calvarial defect in rat and rabbit models and to display excellent absorptiveness enough to contribute bone formation. Therefore, the bacterial cellulose can be developed as an absorbable periodontal tissue and bone regeneration material useful in the field of medical engineering by regulating biodegradability without using chemicals that are toxic to human and environment.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2016Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: KOREA ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Youn-Mook Lim, Sung In Jeong, Hui-Jeong Gwon, Jong Seok Park, Jung-Bo Huh
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Patent number: 10117903Abstract: The present invention relates to a peptide suppressing the phosphorylation of threonine (T120), the 120th residue of TSPYL5 (testis-specific Y-like protein 5), which is specifically as follows. The present inventors constructed T120D, the mutant of the 120th residue threonine (T120) of TSPYL5, and T120A-TSPYL5 gene and then transfected cells with them in order to investigate the effect of phosphorylation on T120 residue. As a result, wild-type TSPYL5 and T120D moved into nucleus and stayed there. But in the case of T120A-TSPYL5, TSPYL5 did not move into nucleus and instead it was expressed only in cytoplasm. The protein could not bind to AKT, either. Instead, ubiquitination of TSPYL5 was increased but SUMOylation was inhibited. Also, the expressions of ALDH1-A1, -A3, CD44 gene and protein were reduced, and thereby the growth and metastasis of lung cancer cells were suppressed and sphere formation was reduced.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2017Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: Korea Atomic Energy Research InstituteInventors: In Gyu Kim, Seo Yeon Kim, Jei Ha Lee, Soo Im Choi, Min Sik Kim, Jung Yul Kim, Byungchul Shin, Uhee Jung
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Patent number: 10115488Abstract: The present invention provides passive safety equipment, comprising: a cooling part formed to cool a first fluid, which is emitted from a reactor coolant system or a steam generator, and a second fluid in a housing; and a circulation induction sprayer which is formed to spray the first fluid emitted from the reactor coolant system or the steam generator into the cooling part, has at least part thereof open to the inside of the housing such that the second fluid flows thereinto according to a drop in pressure caused by the spraying of the first fluid, and sprays the second fluid with the inflown first fluid.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2014Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: KOREA ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Hun Sik Han, Young In Kim, Kyung Jun Kang, Sung Jae Yi, Keung Koo Kim, Ju Hyeon Yoon, Jae Joo Ha, Suhn Choi, Cheon Tae Park, Seung Yeob Ryu, Joo Hyung Moon
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Publication number: 20180308592Abstract: The present disclosure provides a stopped cooling system including: a steam line connecting portion connected to a steam line so as to receive cooling water through the steam line connected to an outlet of a steam generator; a stopped cooling heat exchanger for receiving cooling water that enters the stopped cooling system through the steam line connecting portion, and discharging same through a passage of the heat exchanger; a stopped cooling pump activated to perform stopped cooling of the nuclear reactor upon normal stoppage of the nuclear reactor after primary cooling of the nuclear reactor cooling system or when an accident occurs, and for forming a circulating flow of cooling water that circulates between the steam generator and the stopped cooling heat exchanger; and a water supplying pipe connecting portion connected to the heat exchanger passage and a water supplying pipe, which is connected to the inlet of the steam generator, so as to supply the cooling water cooled in the stopped cooling heat exchType: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2015Publication date: October 25, 2018Applicant: KOREA ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Young In KIM, Keung Koo KIM, Jae Joo HA, Tae Wan KIM, Hun Sik HAN, Kyung Jun KANG
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Patent number: 10102929Abstract: A method of a nuclear fuel pellet including a thermal conductive metal and a nuclear fuel pellet prepared thereby. The method includes preparing an oxide nuclear fuel granule having about 30%-45% theoretical density, mixing the fuel granule with thermal conductive metal powder, compacting the fuel granule with which the thermal conductive metal powder is mixed to prepare a green pellet, and sintering the green pellet. In the method, the sintering may be performed under a reducing gas atmosphere that is the same as the commercial pellet preparing process. Thus, compatibility compared to existing commercial preparing processes may be superior. Also, since a liquefied oxide formation process and a reducing process are omitted, the distribution uniformity of the metal material within the pellet may be superior. Therefore, the nuclear fuel pellet in which the metal network and fine microstructure are uniformly distributed within the pellet may be prepared.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2015Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: KOREA ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Dong-Joo Kim, Young Woo Rhee, Keon-Sik Kim, Jong-Hun Kim, JangSoo Oh, Jae-Ho Yang, Yang-Hyun Koo
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Publication number: 20180293723Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method for detecting an anomaly in a plant pipe using multiple meta-learning. When a multi-sensor data stream about a plant pipe is received, each of a plurality of meta-learning modules for processing different packet section ranges, extracts one or more preset types of features from sensor data of packet section ranges set according to trend from an arbitrary reception time point, generates 2D image features of the features according to multi-sensor-specific times, generates 3D volume features by accumulating the 2D image features in a depth direction according to multiple sensors, and learns the 3D volume features in parallel through multi-sensor-specific learning modules. Results of the learning of the meta-learning modules are aggregated, and it is determined whether there is an anomaly in a plant pipe according to a learning result selected based on an optimal combination of multiple features, multiple sensors, and multiple packet sections.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2018Publication date: October 11, 2018Applicants: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, KOREA ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Ji Hoon BAE, Gwan Joong Kim, Se Won Oh, Doo Byung Yoon, Wan Seon Lim, Kwi Hoon Kim, Nae Soo Kim, Sun Jin Kim, Cheol Sig Pyo
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Publication number: 20180264645Abstract: Disclosed are a device and a method for controlling a motor. According to a specific embodiment of the present disclosure, an input shaft of a motor is provided with a low-resolution absolute position detector and an output shaft of the motor is provided with a low-resolution absolute position detector having a resolution greater than or equal to a reduction gear ratio. An initial offset and an offset are defined accordingly, and a high-resolution output shaft absolute position is derived from a relational expression, which is defined by an input shaft absolute position received at a predetermined time interval, a derived offset, an output shaft absolute position, and the reduction gear ratio, such that it is possible to easily detect the high-resolution output shaft absolute position by using a low-price absolute position detector without the modification or addition of an actuator.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: KOREA ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Hocheol Shin, Chang-Hoi Kim, Yong-Chil Seo, Jongwon Park, Byung-Seon Choi, Jeikwon Moon
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Publication number: 20180261342Abstract: A passive natural circulation cooling system according to the present invention can comprise: a passive condensation tank formed to accommodate cooling water; and a condensate water recirculation device provided at the inner part or upper part of the passive condensation tank, and condensing the cooling water such that the cooling water circulates inside the passive condensation tank. The condense water recirculation device can include: a duct extending upwards from the upper part of the passive condensation tank; and a plurality of partition plates provided inside the passive condensation tank or the duct.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2016Publication date: September 13, 2018Applicant: KOREA ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Kihwan KIM, Taesoon KWON, Sungwon BAE
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Patent number: 10062462Abstract: The present invention provides a facility for reducing radioactive material comprising: a cooling water storage unit installed inside a containment and formed to store cooling water; a boundary unit forming a boundary of radioactive material inside the containment and surrounding a reactor coolant system installed inside the containment to prevent a radioactive material from releasing from the reactor coolant system or a pipe connected with the reactor coolant system to the containment; a connecting pipe connected with an inner space of the boundary unit and the cooling water storage unit to guide a flow of a fluid caused by a pressure difference between the boundary unit and the cooling water storage unit from the boundary unit to the cooling water storage unit; and a sparging unit disposed to be submerged in the cooling water stored in the cooling water storage unit and connected with the connecting pipe to sparge the fluid that has passed through the connecting pipe and the radioactive material contained iType: GrantFiled: August 26, 2014Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: KOREA ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Young In Kim, Kyung Jun Kang, Keung Koo Kim, Hun Sik Han, Ju Hyeon Yoon, Jae Joo Ha, Dae Hyun Hwang, Suhn Choi, Joo Hyung Moon, Soo Jai Shin
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Patent number: 10052358Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating diabetes or dementia, comprising centipede grass (Eremochloa ophiuroides) extracts as an active ingredient. It has been identified from animal tests that the centipede grass extracts, fractions thereof, and active fractions separated from the said fractions effectively regulate blood glucose levels, and inhibit the activity of amyloid-?(A?) which is involved in the formation of amyloid plaques that might cause dementia. Thus, the extracts, the fractions thereof, and the active fractions separated from the said fractions can be effectively used in a composition for preventing and treating diabetes or dementia, in a functional food for preventing or improving diabetes or dementia, and in a pharmaceutical composition or health food for blood glucose regulation.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Korea Atomic Energy Research InstituteInventors: Byung Yeoup Chung, Sungbeom Lee, Hyoungwoo Bai, Seung Sik Lee
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Publication number: 20180233240Abstract: Disclosed is a nuclear power plant which drives a Stirling engine by means of heat generated in nuclear power plant safety systems during an accident, uses the resulting power directly or generates electric power so as to supply the power to the safety systems, and thus can improve economic efficiency as well as the reliability of safety systems, such as a passive safety system, by operating the safety systems without an emergency diesel generator or external electric power.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2015Publication date: August 16, 2018Applicant: KOREA ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Young In KIM, Suhn CHOI, Keung Koo KIM, Young Min BAE, Hun Sik HAN
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Patent number: 10043595Abstract: A uranium dioxide nuclear fuel pellet has about 50 to about 400 ?M (with respect to a 3-dimentional size) microcells formed of a ceramic material having a chemical attraction with fission products generated in the nuclear fuel pellet to absorb and trap the fission products, such that the extraction of the fission product may be retrained in a normal operation condition and that the performance of the nuclear fuel may be enhanced by mitigating PCI. In addition, highly radioactive fission products including Cs and I having a large generation amount or a long half-life enough to affect the environments can be trapped in the pellet in an accident condition, without being released outside.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2013Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignees: Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co., Ltd, Korea Atomic Energy Research InstituteInventors: Keon-Sik Kim, Yang-Hyun Koo, Jong-Hun Kim, JangSoo Oh, Young Woo Rhee, Dong-Joo Kim, Jae-Ho Yang
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Patent number: 10043596Abstract: Disclosed herein is a water-air combined passive feed water cooling apparatus including a water cooling heat exchanger connected to the inside of a containment building to cool down heat of a steam generator using a water cooling method, a cooling tank including the water cooling heat exchanger therein and storing cooling water condensing main steam generated by the steam generator, an evaporative steam pipe connected to the cooling tank, the evaporative steam pipe, into which steam of the cooling water generated by the water cooling heat exchanger in the cooling tank flows, an air cooling heat exchanger connected to the evaporative steam pipe and cooling down and liquefying the steam flowing into the evaporative steam pipe, and a condensed water collecting pipe for refilling the cooling tank with the steam liquefied by the air cooling heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2014Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: KOREA ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Tae-Soon Kwon, Kihwan Kim, Hyun Sik Park, Sung Won Bae, Yusun Park
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Publication number: 20180218796Abstract: A hybrid safety injection tank system. The system is pressurized with a safety valve of a pressurizer, which functions as a low pressure safety injection tank and as a high pressure core makeup tank of a nuclear reactor emergency core cooling system. The safety valve is configured to be automatically operated in response to a pressure difference and is installed on a pressure equalization pipe that can realize pressure equalization between the low pressure safety injection tank and the high pressure pressurizer in the event of the nuclear power plant station blackout and power outage.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2013Publication date: August 2, 2018Applicant: Korea Atomic Energy Research InstituteInventors: Tae-Soon Kwon, Kihwan Kim, Chul-Hwa Song, Joon-Eon Yang, Won Pil Baek
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Patent number: 10037828Abstract: The present invention provides a dry interim storage container for spent nuclear fuel, precisely a dry interim storage container that can be filled with spent nuclear fuel wherein the storage container space is also filled with metal particles. The dry storage container for spent nuclear fuel of the present invention is filled with particles in its empty space for the spent nuclear fuel, which is advantageous in cooling efficiency and maintenance cost, compared with the conventional storage method using gas.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2017Date of Patent: July 31, 2018Assignee: KOREA ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Chan Bock Lee, Jun Hwan Kim, Jin-Sik Cheon
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Publication number: 20180210979Abstract: The present invention relates to a simulation of a nuclear facility dismantling operation, comprising: a database which includes information on at least one task constituting a nuclear facility dismantling operation and information on a virtual space related to the simulation of the dismantling operation; a plurality of head mounted displays (HMDs) which receives inputs of users related to the simulation; a simulation unit which generates the virtual space, transmits to the plurality of HMDs, the image of the virtual space including operator objects corresponding to each of the users of the plurality of HMDs, and processes the simulation of the dismantling operation according to the inputs received from each HMD user, wherein, when simulations which are different in at least one of the number of the users and the progress order of the tasks are processed, the simulation unit compares the simulations on the basis of at least one of the number of the users or the progress order of the tasks and displays a compaType: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2015Publication date: July 26, 2018Applicant: KOREA ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Kwanseong JEONG, Jeikwon MOON, Byungseon CHOI, Dongjun HYUN, Jonghwan LEE, Ikjune KIM, Geunho KIM
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Publication number: 20180196147Abstract: The present invention provides a radiation detector comprising: a scintillator for absorbing radiation to generate light; and a light detector formed in the scintillator, wherein the scintillator is composed of a two-dimensional nanomaterial for imparting ductility. The scintillator is formed by laminating the two-dimensional nanomaterial, the two-dimensional nanomaterial being at least one of graphene oxide, reduced graphene oxide, and graphene quantum dots.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2016Publication date: July 12, 2018Applicant: KOREA ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Changgoo KANG, Jangho HA, Joonho OH, Hansoo KIM, Youngsoo KIM, Manhee JEONG
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Patent number: 10011893Abstract: Provided are a ferritic/martensitic oxide dispersion strengthened steel with increased high temperature creep resistance, including 0.02 to 0.2 wt % of carbon (C), 8 to 12 wt % of chromium (Cr), 0.1 to 0.5 wt % of yttria (Y2O3), 0.2 to 2 wt % of molybdenum (Mo), 0.01 to 0.5 wt % of titanium (Ti), 0.01 to 1 wt % of manganese (Mn), 0.01 to 0.3 wt % of vanadium (V), 0 to 0.3 wt % of zirconium (Zr), 0 to 0.5 wt % of nickel (Ni), and the remaining content of iron (Fe), and a method of manufacturing the same. The ferritic/martensitic oxide dispersion strengthened steel may be useful as a material for core structural components of a nuclear power system, ultra supercritical pressure steam generator components of a thermal power plant, or engine components of an airplane due to a high tensile strength at 700° C. and excellent creep resistance.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2014Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Korea Atomic Energy Research InstituteInventors: Tae Kyu Kim, Sanghoon Noh, Byoung-Kwon Choi, Ki-Baik Kim, Yong-Hwan Jeong
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Patent number: 9981393Abstract: A remote attaching and detaching device which includes a camera module to substitute a worker's vision in such an environment where the worker's direct access to the in-cell is extremely limited or impossible. In a remote attaching and detaching device including a camera module for monitoring operating environment of a slave arm of a remote robot working in hazardous environment, the remote attaching and detaching device includes a fixing module fixed to a proximity of a gripper provided on the slave arm, and the camera module is attachable to and detachable from the fixing module, and provides visual in-cell information or situation about surroundings of the gripper.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2013Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignees: KOREA ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE, KOREA HYDRO AND NUCLEAR POWER CO., LTD.Inventors: Kiho Kim, Jong Kwang Lee, Seung-Nam Yu, Byung Suk Park, Il-Je Cho, Hansoo Lee
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Patent number: 9984778Abstract: A nuclear power plant includes a nuclear reactor containment structure housing a nuclear reactor, a pressure vessel containing condensed water therein and having a receiving space located lower than a bottom of the containment structure, a release pipe connecting the containment structure to the pressure vessel such that water vapor and fission products generated in the containment structure in the event of an accident is capable of flowing into the pressure vessel, and a recovery pipe connecting the pressure vessel to the containment structure such that the condensed water received in the pressure vessel is capable of flowing into the containment structure. When a level of the condensed water received in the pressure vessel is higher than a water level in the containment structure, the condensed water flows from the pressure vessel toward the containment structure by a water head difference.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2014Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignees: KOREA ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE, KOREA HYDRO & NUCLEAR POWER CO., LTD.Inventors: Jin Ho Song, Kwang Soon Ha, Hwan Yeol Kim, Yong Mann Song