• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권7호
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• pp.2578-2590
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• 2023

In this work, a 24-month two-batch fuel management strategy for the APR1400 using LEU + has been investigated, where enrichments of 5.9 and 5.2 w/o are utilized in lieu of the conventional 4-5 w/o UO₂ fuel. In addition, an Accident Tolerant Fuel (ATF) clad based on the swaging technology is applied to APR1400 fuel assemblies. In this special ATF clad design, both outer and inner SS316 layers protect the conventional zircaloy clad. Erbia (Er₂O₃) is introduced as a burnable absorber with two-fold goals to lower the critical boron concentration in the long-cycle LEU + loaded core as well as to handle the LEU + fuel in the existing front-end fuel facilities without renewing the license. Two types of fuel assemblies with different loading of gadolinia (Gd₂O₃) are considered to control both the reactivity and the core radial power distribution. The erbia burnable absorber is uniformly admixed with UO₂ in all fuel pins except for the gadolinia-bearing ones. In this study, two core designs were devised with different erbia loading, and core performance and safety parameters were evaluated for each case in comparison with a core design without any burnable absorbers. The core analysis was done using the two-step method. First, cross-sections are generated by the SERPENT 2 Monte Carlo code, and the 3-D neutronic analysis is performed with an in-house multi-physics nodal code KANT.

• 한국원자력학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국원자력학회 1996년도 추계학술발표회논문집(1)
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• pp.309-314
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• 1996

Feasibility study has been accomplished to evaluate the effectiveness of the in-vessel core debris cooling through lower cavity flooding using two dimensional finite difference scheme. The volume of cerium pool and decay power rate generated in corium pool were evaluated as important parameters to the temperature distribution on the reactor vessel lower head through previous works. In this study, the corium volume based on the System 80＋ core structure and time dependent decay power rate are considered for feasibility evaluation. In addition, preliminary plans for the in-vessel core debris cooling through lower cavity flooding as severe accident management strategy, i.e. flooding timing, method and capacity, are suggested based on the result of the numerical study, international tendency related to in-vessel core debris cooling through lower cavity flooding.

• 정보화정책
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.63-82
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• 2012

우리나라의 정보인프라는 세계 최고 수준이다. 그러나 심각한 보안 사고의 위험 또한 동반하고 있다. 최근 일어난 주요 사고만 정리해도 유출된 개인정보는 우리나라 인터넷 사용인구의 세 배를 넘는다. 이제 개인정보 침해 등의 정보보안의 사고는 국가의 일급재난에 해당하는 정책문제가 되었다. 이 논문은 빅 데이터 시대의 정보보안을 위한 정책적 논의를 사회과학 차원에서 탐구하였다. 이를 위해 최근 사고가 급증한 개인정보침해 사례를 위험기반으로 분석하였다. 사례분석결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 발생가능성과 영향에 따라 정보통신기술의 위험의 상황은 '심각, 강력, 집중, 기본'으로 구분되었다. 둘째, 위험의 상황에 따라 해당집단은 '계층주의, 평등주의, 운명주의, 개인주의' 문화유형을 지니며 '회피, 전가, 완화, 수용'의 대응 정책을 적용하였다. 셋째, 위험상황에 따라 정보통신기술은 '대용량, 고성능, 다양성'의 빅 데이터의 특성을 보였다. 이 연구의 시사점은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 위험상황별 문화유형과 빅 데이터의 특성을 이해하여 포괄적인 정책을 수립하고 적용할 수 있는 정부의 전담조직이 필요하다. 둘째, 빅 데이터 시대 정보통신기술에 대한 위험관리는 '기술, 규범, 법, 시장' 측면의 균형 있는 정책의 적용이 필요하다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.1201-1209
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• 2008

서울에는 지상 60층이 넘는 초고층 건물과 시하 8층 이상의 초심층 건축물. 지하철과 상가, 백화점, 호텔, 전시장등이 연결된 대규모 복합유통시설 지역 등이 있다. 이런 지역이나 시설에서 화재와 같은 재난사고가 발생시 진압작전을 위해 투입된 소방관의 위치를 제대로 파악할 수 없으면 투입된 소방관의 안전은 물론 효율적인 지휘통제가 제한되어 결국 더 많은 자체 피해와 더불어 화재 진압 및 시민구조에 제한을 받을 수밖에 없다. 이러한 대형재난에 유비쿼터스 기술을 활용하여 투입한 소방력의 효율적인 운영과 과학적인 진압작전을 구사하여 시민의 생명과 재산을 최대한 보호할 수 있는 소방대응지원 시스템 구축방안을 제시하였다.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.86-92
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• 2014

This paper provides an integrated view on human and system interaction in advanced and automated systems, which adopting computerized multi-functional artifacts and complicated organizations, such as nuclear power plants, chemical plants, steel and semi-conduct manufacturing system. As current systems have advanced with various automated equipments but human operators from various organizations are involved in the systems, system safety still remains uncertain. Especially, a human operator plays an important role at the time of critical conditions that can lead to catastrophic accidents. The knowledge on human error helps a risk manager as well as a designer to create and control a more credible system. Several human error theories were reviewed and adopted for forming the integrated perspective: gulf of execution and evaluation; risk homeostasis; the ironies of automation; trust in automation; design affordance; distributed cognition; situation awareness; and plan delegation theory. The integrated perspective embraces human error theories within three levels of human-system interactions such as affordance level, psychological logic level and trust level. This paper argued that risk management process should dealt with human errors by providing (1) reasoning improvement; (2) support to situation awareness of operators; and (3) continuous monitoring on harmonization of human system interaction. This approach may help people to understand risk of human-system interaction failure characteristics and their countermeasures.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.372-380
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• 2018

The manual handling of people (MHP) is known to be associated with high incidence of musculoskeletal disorders for aged care staff. Environment-related MHP interventions, such as appropriate seated heights to aid sit-to-stand transfers, can reduce staff injury while improving the patient's mobility. Promoting patient mobility within the manual handling interaction is an endorsed MHP risk control intervention strategy. This article provides a narrative review of the types of MHP environmental controls that can improve mobility, as well as the extent to which these environmental controls are considered in MHP risk management and assessment tools. Although a range of possible environmental interventions exist, current tools only consider these in a limited manner. Development of an assessment tool that more comprehensively covers environmental strategies in MHP risk management could help reduce staff injury and improve resident mobility through auditing existing practices and guiding the design of new and refurbished aged care facilities.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.135-140
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• 2015

Individuals who are vulnerable during disaster - including elderly, people with disabilities, children, pregnant women and etc - have a strong desire to protect themselves when disaster strikes since they are less capable to deal with the impact of disaster. Their experience and effort to keep them safe can be used as a resource to reduce the impacts of disaster not only for them but also for the community as a whole. Therefore, voluntary disaster management program will contribute to our society as a tool to respond effectively to disaster not only to meet the vulnerable's special needs but also to enhance community safety and public interest. This paper suggests a model that able "disaster vulnerable population" to take a leadership role in identifying risk and vulnerability factors, recommending disaster management strategy, and through that, contributing to enhance society's disaster plan. Therefore, this study aimed to surveyed individuals including "disaster vulnerable population" in order to assess the vulnerable's participation in disaster related volunteer work and surveyed associated institutions(volunteer centers, community centers) in order to research currently existing relevant programmes and the participation of "disaster vulnerable population" in such programmes. Also conducted focus group interview to explore voluntary program which will possibly integrate "disaster vulnerable population" into disaster management activities. As a result, three types of voluntary disaster management programs - education, public-relations, and activity - were suggested.

• Strategy21
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• 통권37호
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• pp.193-241
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• 2015

China, Japan and Korea are the world's top 10 energy consumers, and so very interested in the development of seabed hydrocarbon resources in order to meet their energy demands. The East China Sea is the tri-junction area where three countries' entitlements on the maritime boundaries are overlapped. There are abundant oil reserves in the East China Sea, and therefore competitions among countries are growing to get control of them. Although these countries have concluded the bilateral agreements to jointly develop resources in the East China Sea, they do not function as well. Because joint development and management of seabed petroleum resources can lead to stable development system, and to lower possibility of legal and political disputes, the needs for joint development agreement among three countries are urgent. Meanwhile, Northeast Asian seas are semi-closed seas, which are geographically closed and vulnerable to marine pollution. Moreover there are a lot of nuclear power plants in coastal area, and seabed petroleum resources are being developed. So it is likely to occur nuclear and oil spill accidents. Fukushima nuclear disaster and Bohai Bay oil spill accident in 2011 are the cases to exhibit the potential of major marine pollution accidents in this area. It is anticipated that the risks become higher because power plants and offshore oil platforms are extending gradually. Therefore, the ways to seek the joint marine environmental protection agreement focused on regulation of nuclear power plant and offshore oil platform have to be considered. In this paper, we try to find the way to make joint development and joint environmental protection agreement in Northeast Asian seas. We concentrate on the measure to drive joint development of seabed petroleum deposits in East China Sea's overlap area, despite of maritime delimitation and territorial disputes, and we try to drive joint marine environmental protection system to respond to marine pollution and accidents due to offshore oil platform and nuclear power plants. Through these consideration, we seek solutions to deal with lack of energy, disputes of maritime territorial and boundary delimitation, and marine pollution in Northeast Asia.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.129-136
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• 1996

영향도를 이용하여 영광 3, 4호기의 격납용기 성능해석을 수행하였다. 기존의 사상수목기법을 응용한 격납용기 성능해석은 사건들 사이의 의존 관계를 명확히 나타내기 어렵고, 사고진행사상수목(APET) 에서 알 수 있듯이, 격납용기와 같은 복잡한 계통에 적용할 경우 그 의존 관계를 그림으로조차 나타낼 수가 없으며, 또한, 의사결정문제를 다루는 데에도 많은 한계점을 지니고 있다. 이러한 문제점들을 해결하기 위하여 새로이 개발된 방법론인 영향도를 영광 3, 4호기 격납용기 성능해석과 사고관리방안을 평가하는 데에 적용하여 보았다. 본 연구에서 얻은 계산 결과와 기존의 사상수목 기법을 이용하여 계산한 결과와 비교한 결과, 거의 일치하는 계산 결과를 얻을 수 있으면서도 전체 격납용기 계통을 한 눈에 알기 쉽게 그림으로 나타낼 수 있었다. 또한, 향도가 의사결정문제를 일반적으로 다룰 수 있음을 보이기 위하여 본 방법론을 사고관리방안을 평가하는 데에 이용하여, 원자로 냉각계통 감압과 원자로공동 범람 방안, 두 가지 사고관리방안을 평가하여 보았다. 모두 초기 격납용기 파손에는 나쁜 영향을 주는 것으로 나 타났으나, 후기 격납용기 파손이나 중기발생기 세관파손에는 원자로공동범람과 일차계통 감압이 각각 어느 정도 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구를 통하여, 영향도를 이용한 격납응기 성능 해석은 사상수목기법을 이용한 분석에 비해, 진행되는 사건들 사이의 의존관계를 보다 명확히 나타낼 수 있고, 또한 영향도는 운전자의 의사결정을 잘 나타낼 수 있으므로 사고관리기법을 평가하는 데에도 쉽게 적용할 수 있음을 알 수 있다. 결론적으로, 본 연구에서는 영향도가 사상수목기법이 지니고 있는 여러 한계점들을 쉽게 극복하며 격납용기 성능해석에 적용할 수 있음을 보였다.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.83-88
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• 2019

The 7,993 cases of Survey Report of Fatal Industrial Accidents conducted jointly by the MEOL and the KOSHA for the recent seven years(2007-2013) were categorized according to personal and occupational characteristics, industry types, business sizes, job types, activities at the time accident, types of accidents, material agents(assailing materials), unsafe conditions, and unsafe acts. And it is found that among the 72.2 percent of fatal occupational accidents in the construction and manufacturing industries are caused by falling, sticking, bumping and being caught under objects & overturning. For this study, through the empirical analysis on causes of fatal industrial accidents, was used to identity high risk groups based on total data of 7,993 victims of occupational accidents. An annual fatal occupational injury (FOI) rate per 10,000 workers was about 0.47‱. The middle-aged group and the elderly group showed the highest FOI rates per 10,000 workers (0.73‱, 0.80‱), and the daily workers showed the highest FOI rate (1.46‱), and the craft and related trades workers showed the highest FOI rate (2.17‱). In case of industry type the mining industry (7.26‱) showed the highest FOI rate, followed by the sewerage, waste management, materials recovery and remediation activity industry (3.91‱) and the construction industry (2.71‱). The primary high risk target group that requires a strategy designed to reduce fatal occupation injuries caused by falling and bumping & contact(collision) is the construction industry, and the secondary high risk target group in the construction industry is classified as the equipment, machine operating and assembling workers in the construction industry, those aged 50 years old and above need the prevention measures against bumping & contact(collision) and being caught under an object & falling(objects), while those aged less than 50 years old need prevention measures against falling(persons).