• 전기의세계
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• v.43 no.7
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• pp.7-22
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• 1994

잠수함추진방식은 크게 원자력 추진과 재래식 추진으로 나눌수 있다. 최근에는 재래식 추진방식과 하이브리드 개념으로 운용될 수 있는 AIP(air independent propulsion)방식도 활발히 연구되고 있다. AIP 추진으로는 폐회로 디젤기관추진(closed cycle diesel engine propulsion), 연료 전지추진(fuel cell propulsion) 스터링기관추진(stirling engine propulsion) 및 폐회로터빈추진(closed cycle turbine propulsion)등이 있다. 이러한 잠수함 추진체계에 대해 앞으로 크게 세부분으로 나누어 그 현황과 발전추세를 살펴보고자 한다.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.1-17
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• 1994

잠수함추진방식은 크게 원자력 추진과 재래식 추진으로 나눌수 있다. 최근에는 재래식 추진방식과 하이브리드 개념으로 운용될 수 있는 AIP(Air Independent Propulsion)방식도 활발히 연구되고 있다. AIP추진으로는 폐회로 디젤기관추진(Closed Cycle Diesel Engine Propulsion), 연료전지추진(Fuel Cell Propulsion), 스터링기관추진(Stirling Engine Propulsion) 및 폐회로터빈추진(Closed Cycle Turbin Propulsion) 등이 있다. 이러한 잠수함 추진체계에 대해 앞으로 크게 세부분으로 나누어 그 현황과 발전추세를 살펴보고자 한다. 즉, 초기의 순수전기추진방식으로 불리는 재래식 추진체계, 재래식 추진방식의 한계를 극복하기 위해 최근 활발히 연구되고 있는 외기와 무관한 추진장치인 폐회로 추진체계, 그리고 궁극적으로는 에너지의 문제로 귀착되어 거의 무한대의 에너지원을 가지고 있는 원자력 추진체계로 구분하여 그 현황과 발전내용을 살펴 봄으로써 잠수함추진체계의 국내연구 개발방향정립에 조금이나마 보탬이 되었으면 합니다. 또한 차세대 추진장치로 불리는 전자유체 추진방식에 대해서는 한국박용기관 학회지 1993년 4월호 "박용전자유체(MHD) 추진장치"를 참조하시기 바랍니다.조하시기 바랍니다.

• 전기의세계
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• v.44 no.1
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• pp.25-34
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• 1995

잠수함에는 크게 재래식 잠수함과 원자력 잠수함이 있다. 이러한 잠수함은 크기, 무장, 임무 및 추진장치에 따라서 여러 가지로 세분화될 수 있다. 그러나 잠수함이라는 측면에서는 모두가 공통점을 지니고 있기 때문에 본 원고에서는 이러한 구분없이 총칭해서 그 내용을 다루고자 한다. 1989년 베를린 장벽이 무너진 이후로 잠수함의 요구 추세는 급격히 감소하는 경향에 있어 차세대에는 잠수함이 없어지지 않을까 하는 의구심에 사로잡히기 쉬우나 오히려 현재보다도 더 중요한 임무를 점할 것이라는 견해에 동감하면서 21세기의 잠수함 기술은 어떤 것이 될 것인가를 예측해보고자 한다.

• Nuclear industry
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• v.36 no.11
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• pp.78-83
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• 2016

원자력이 잠수함의 추진 동력으로 사용된 역사는 오래되었지만 해상 원전 플랫폼 같은 민간 해양 사업 부문에 활용되기 시작한 것은 최근의 일이다. 중국과 러시아는 해상 원전 플랫폼 개발 계획에 전념해 왔는데 이제 그 첫번째 플랫폼 개발 사업의 완료를 눈앞에 두고 있다. 미 원자력에너지협회(NEI)가 해상 원전 플랫폼 개발 계획의 내용과 해상 원전이 환경이나 지역 안보 문제에 어떠한 의미를 가져오게 되는지 살펴보았다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.9
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• pp.142-149
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• 2019

In the early 2000s, the Korean government first attempted to acquire nuclear-powered submarines as strategic assets. Acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines must overcome the challenges of the initial costs and operating costs of trillions of US dollars per ship, must be agreed to by the international community (including neighboring countries) and in a national consensus, and must have an established technical infrastructure (including manpower). The US navy has been working with governments that want to acquire nuclear propulsion warships since the 1950s, and in 1982, they enacted an executive order called the United States Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program to consolidate efforts and prepare for the future, which sets out the organizational structure, authority, and responsibilities of US governmental management, and integrates national efforts. This paper is to gain valuable wisdom from the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program by analyzing all of its histories and contributions, thereby providing valuable lessons for a future program in Korea. It might not be possible to follow the U.S.A. one-on-one because of the scale of national and military forces, but at least we can avoid time and effort spent on trial and error.

• Journal of The Korean Institute of Defense Technology
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.1-8
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• 2023

In this study the economic impact of each plan for introducing Korea unclear-powered submarines were analyzed. This study conducted a preliminary investigation into foreign countries cases of unclear-powered submarines and classified three introduction plans. In order to analyze the economic impact of each introduction plan, a multiple-level survey was conducted targeting experts with experience in developing and operating ship weapon systems, and quantitative results were calculated for subcategory items with industrial relevance for industrial correlation analysis. The value added inducement coefficient and production inducement coefficient and employment inducement coefficient were calculated for each introduction method, and a favorable introduction method was derived. It is hoped that the results of this study will serve as a reference for policy decision-making during prior research for the introduction of korea nuclear submarines.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.235-245
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• 2018

This study first analyzes the necessity and the validity of procuring nuclear-powered submarines, and presents an optimization model as an integer program to determine a minimum required level of them. For an optimization model, we characterize a submarine's mission, ability and availability, and apply these to the model by constraints. Then, we assign the submarines available currently and the nuclear-powered submarines, that will be newly introduced, to the predefined missions over the planning time periods in a way that the number of nuclear-powered submarines be minimized. Randomly generated missions are employed to solve a mission assignment problem, and the results show that our integer programming model provides an optimal solution as designed, and this can provide a guideline for other weapon system procurement processes.

• Strategy21
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• s.42
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• pp.5-52
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• 2017

Debates about introducing nuclear submarines have been a main issue in Korea. The highest officials and the government has started to think seriously about the issue. Yet there were no certain decision to this issue or any agreements with US but it is still necessary to review about introducing nuclear submarines, the technologies and about the business. The reason for such issues are the highest officials of Korea to build nuclear submarine, nK's nuclear development and SLBM launching. ROKN's nuclear submarine's necessity will be to attack(capacity to revenge), defend(anti-SSBN Operation) and to respond against neighboring nation's threat(Russia, Japan, China). Among these nations, US, Russia (Soviet Union), Britain, France had built their submarines in a short term of time due to their industrial foundation regarding with nuclear propulsion submarines. However China and India have started their business without their industrial foundation prepared and took a long time to build their submarines. Current technology level of Korea have reached almost up to US, Russia, Britain and France when they first built their nuclear propulsion submarines since we have almost completed the business for the Changbogo-I,II and almost up to complete building the Changbogo-III which Korea have self designed/developed. Furthermore Korea have reached the level where we can self design large nuclear reactors and the integrated SMART reactor which we can call ourselves a nation with worldwide technologies. If introducing the nuclear submarine to the Korea gets decided, first of all we would have to review the technological problems and also introduce the foreign technologies when needed. The methods for the introduction will be developments after loans from the foreign, productions with technological cooperations, and individual production. The most significant thing will be that changes are continuous and new instances are keep showing up so that it is important to only have a simple reference to a current instances and have a review on every methods with many possibilities. Also developing all of the technologies for the nuclear propulsion submarines may be not possible and give financial damages so there may be a need to partially introduce foreign technologies. For the introduction of nuclear propulsion submarines, there must be a resolution of the international regulations together with the international/domestics resistances and the technological problems to work out for. Also there may be problem for the requirement fees to solve for and other tough problems to solve for. However nuclear submarines are powerful weapon system to risk everything above. This is an international/domestically a serious agenda. Therefore rather than having debates based on false facts, there must be a need to have an investigations and debates regarding the nation's benefits and national security.

• Strategy21
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• s.41
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• pp.261-293
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• 2017

Nuclear power is a way of attaining an enormous amount of energy with relatively small amount of resources and after it has been introduced to the submarine since 1954, there are approximately 150 of nuclear powered submarine currently on a mission around the world. This is due to the maneuverability, mountability and covertness of nuclear submarines. However, there are other tasks, not only the high level of nuclear technology that are needed to be dealt with in order to construct nuclear powered submarine. The biggest task of all is to secure the enriched uranium. Accordingly, this research is about the way of enriching and securing the nuclear fuel that are used in the nuclear submarine with the characteristics, merits and demerits of the nuclear submarine. Due to the fact that the pressurized water reactor in South Korea is the reactor that was originally built for the development of nuclear powered submarine, many parts is designed to be suitable for the submarine propulsion. However, in order to apply this to submarine it is needed to consider additional requests such as the position of reactor, accident-coping system, radioactive covering, reactor output adjustment and ship's pitch and roll in order to apply this to submarine. Nuclear submarines have much higher speed based on the powerful propulsion in comparison with diesel-electric submarine and also have bigger loading area. Besides, there is no need to snorkel and they also have advantages in covertness with the multi-noise proof system. The nuclear technology in South Korea has seen the dramatic development since 1962 and in 1998 reached to the level that we have succeeded in the localization of nuclear plant and exported the world-class one-piece small-sized reactor (SMART) to UAE. To operate these reactors, we import the whole quantity of low-enriched uranium and having our own uranium enrich facility is not probable because of the budget and international regulations. With the ROK/US nuclear agreement revised on 2015 November, the enrichment of uranium that are available without special permission has changed up to 20%. According to the assumption that we use the 20% enrichment of Uranium on U.S. virginia class submarine, it is necessary to change the fuel after 11 years and it will cause additional cost of 1 billion dollars. But the replace period by the uranium's enrichment rate is not fixed so that it is possible to change according to the design of reactor. Therefore, I would like to make a suggestion on two types of design concepts of nuclear submarine that can be operated for 30 years without nuclear fuel change by using the 20% enriched uranium from ONNp.First of all, it is possible by increasing the size of reactor by 3 times and it results in the 1,000t increase of the weight. And secondly, it is by designing the one piece reactor to insert devices such as steam turbine, condenser into the inside of nuclear core like the Rubis class submarines of France.