• Proceedings of the Korean Radioactive Waste Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.134-142
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• 2005

The experimental setups for flow visualization and processes identification in laboratory scale (so cal led Flow Lab.) has developed to get ideas and answer fundamental questions of flow and migration in geologic media. The setup was made of a granite block of $50{\times}50cm$ scale and a transparent acrylate plate. The tracers used in this experiments were tritiated water, anions, and sorbing cations as well as an organic dye, eosine, to visualize migration paths. The migration plumes were taken with a digital camera as a function of time and stored as digital images. A migration model was also developed to describe and identify the transport processes. Computer simulation was carried out not only for the hydraulic behavior such as distributions of pressure and flow vectors in the fracture but also for the migration plume and the elution curves.

• Journal of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology(JNFCWT)
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.49-56
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• 2010

In the pyroprocessing of spent nuclear fuels, LiCl-KCl waste salt containing radioactive rare earth chlorides are generated. The radioactive rare earth oxides are recovered by co-oxidative precipitation of rare earth elements. The powder phase of rare eath oxide waste must be immobilized to produce a monolithic wasteform suitable for storage and ultimate disposal. The immobilization of these waste developed in this study involves a solid state sintering of the waste with host borosilicate glass and zinc titanate based ceramic matrix(ZIT). And the rare-earth monazite which synthesised by reaction of ammonium di-hydrogen phosphate with the rare earth oxides waste, were immobilzed with the borosilicate glass. It is shown that the developed ZIT ceramic wasteform is highly resistant the leaching process, high density and thermal conductivity.

• 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.94-103
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• 2001

An experiment was conducted using a sand and gravel-filled tank model, to investigate the influence on the GPR response of vadose zone gasoline vapor phase effects and residual gasoline distributed by a fluctuating water table. After background GPR measurements were made with only water in the tank, gasoline was injected into the bottom of the model tank to simulate a subsurface discharge from a leaking pipe or tank. Results from the experiment show the sensitivity of GPR to the changes in the moisture content and its effectiveness for monitoring minor fluctuation of the water table. The results also demonstrate a potential of GPR for detecting possible vapor phase effects of volatile hydrocarbons in the vadose zone as a function of time, and for detecting the effects of residual phase of hydrocarbons in the water saturated system. In addition, the results provide the basis for a strategy that has the potential to successfully detect and delineate LNAPL contamination at field sites where zones of residual LNAPL in the water saturated system are present in the subsurface.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.132-136
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• 1988

A strategic question in groundwater contaminant transport modeling is whether we need to treat waste packages or drums as individual, discrete sources or as approximately lumped sources. In this paper we present analyses of array sources in porous media. We analyze a planar array of sources in porous media with groundwater flow. We compare the concentration field predicted by a detailed model of individual point sources to concentration fields predicted by an infinite plane source and a single point source, all of the same equivalent strength. From this study we identified three regions: (1) a region close to the sources where the effects of adjacent sources are significant and individual source models should be used, (2) a region extending from a few meters to hundreds to thousands of meters downstream, where an equivalent source of infinite extent gives accurate results, and (3) a far-field region, where in an equivalent source of finite extent gives accurate results.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.230-235
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• 2009

Photopolymer is evaluated as better material than the others used for hologram storage, due to many advantages, such as high diffraction efficiency, easy processing, and self-developing. In this study, chalcogenide inorganic compound ($SeO_2$) which has optical activity, was added to polyvinyl alcohol/acrylamide photopolymer films. In order to optimize diffraction efficiency of these photopolymer films, we prepared the photopolymer films with various film thicknesses and Eosin Y content. Diffraction efficiency of the photopolymer films were measured using a 532 nm laser at $40^{\circ}$ incident angle. As a result, the phtopolymer film with Eosin Y content of 0.0045 g and thickness of $297{\mu}m$ showed the highest diffraction efficiency (78.70%).

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.35-41
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• 2012

Manifold researches for carbon capture and storage (CCS) have been developed and large scale-carbon capture system can be performed recently. Hence, the technologies for $CO_2$ sequestration or storage become necessary to handle the captured $CO_2$. Among them, enhanced oil recovery using $CO_2$ can be a solution since it guarantees both oil recovery and $CO_2$ sequestration. In this study, the miscible flow of oil and $CO_2$ in porous media is modeled to analyze the effect of enhanced oil recovery and $CO_2$ sequestration. Based on Darcy-Muskat law, the equation is modified to consider miscibility of oil and $CO_2$ and the change of viscosity. Finite volume method is used for numerical modeling. As results, the pressure and oil saturation changes with time can be predicted when oil, water, and $CO_2$ are injected, respectively, and $CO_2$ injection is more efficient than water injection for oil recovery.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.553-564
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• 1998

For the proper design and management of underground storage cavern, groundwater flow around cavern should be analyzed. Since this flow is influenced by spatial nonuniformity of hudraulic conductivity, the two-dimensional finite element flow model incorporating stochastic concepts was developed to analyze influences due to this nonuniformity. Monte Carlo technique was applied to obtain an approximate solution for two-dimensional, steady flow in a stochastically defined nonuniform medisu. For this purpose, the values of hydraulic conductivity were generated for each element with known mean and standard deviations. The uncertainty in model prediction depends on both the nonuniformity in hydraulic conductivity and the natures of the flow system such as water curtain and boundary condition. Therefore the uncertainties in predicted hydraulic head and gradient are the greatest where the mean hydraulic gradients are relatively large and far from the boundaries. Especially, we relate these uncertainties with well known gas tightness condition.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.339-344
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• 2001

We propose a method to represent binary data by modulating both the intensity and the phase of uniform plane waves with a twisted-nematic liquid crystal display for holographic digital data storage especially in a disk-shaped recording medium. As far as intensity modulation is concerned, our method is not different from the conventional method, because binary bit values 0 and 1 are represented by the dark (off) and lit (on) states of the liquid crystal display pixels, respectively (or vice versa). With our method, however, the on pixels are also controlled so that the beams passing through them can have one of two different phase delays. If the difference of the two phase delays is close to 180 degrees, we can reduce the dc component of the data image and thus improve the beam intensity uniformity at the holographic recording plane when Fourier plane holograms are recorded. The feasibility of our method is experimentally demonstrated. rated.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1998.05b
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• pp.385-390
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• 1998

방사성 페이온교환수지 아스팔트고화체를 처분장 등지에서 장기간 저장시 안전성 확보를 위하여 물리적 강도가 높고 고화체내에서 방사성핵종의 침출저항성 및 처리시 감용의 효과가 우수한 고화체 연구가 필요하게 되었다. 실험에 사용된 이온교환수지는 입상형 양이온 교환수지를 대상으로 하였으며 고화매질로서는 도로포장용으로 생산되는 직류아스팔트 60/70을 사용하였다. 고화보조제는 방사성 고체패기물 포장시 사용되어 폐기물로 발생되는 페폴리에틸렌(폐PE) 필름을 사용하였다. 실험결과 고화체의 형태안정성은 PE 함유량이 10 wt% 이상일 때 고화체 형태를 그대로 유지할 수 있으며 압축강도는 414 kPa(60 psi) 이상을 나타내었다. 최적의 운전조건은 이온교환수지, PE 함유량이 건조기준으로 각각 30~50 wt%, 10~25 wt% 이며, 고화온도는 170~20$0^{\circ}C$이다. 고화체의 침출특성은 확산 (diffusion) 으로 해석이 가능하며, 유효확산계수(De)는 Cs, Co의 경우 각각 1.621$\times$$10^{-7}$, 1.186$\times$$10^{-9}$ $\textrm{cm}^2$/day로 나타나고, Leachablity index는 각각 11.7, 13.8로 미국 원자력위원회 (NRC)가 요구하는 기준값 6보다 훨씬 높게 나타났다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.22-27
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• 2000

We present a sequential stereoscopic display system using volume holographic storage. Multiple angular multiplexed stereoscopic image pairs are recorded into a photorefractive crystal that can store data with high density, transfer them with high speed, and select a randomly chosen data element. The reference beam with Bragg selectivity is scattered by the index grating and the diffracted beams are propagating along the directions of the stereoscopic image pairs. The images are to be suitably projected on the left and right display plane sequentially for stereoscopic video viewing.