• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.197-204
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• 1994

원자로운전정지시 사용되는 제어봉집합체는 제어봉구동장치에서 분리되어 핵연료집합체의 안내관으로 자유낙하한다. 이 제어봉집합체의 주요변수로는 낙하시간과 충격속도가 있는데, 낙하시간은 원자로 안전정지와 관계가 있으며, 충격속도는 핵연료집합체의 건전성과 관계가 있다. 따라서, 제어봉 낙하시간과 충격속도의 적절한 결정은 제어봉집합체와 핵연료집합체의 설계에 매우 중요하다. 제어봉집합체는 낙하도중 유체저항이나 마찰력 및 부력과 같은 여러 힘들에 의해 낙하시간이 감소하게 되는데, 이러한 여러가지 힘의 복잡한 결합으로 인해 낙하시간과 충격속도를 해석적으로 유추하는 것은 매우 어렵다. 본 논문에서는 국산핵연료집합체에 적용되는 해석적인 방정식을 포함하고 있는 프로그램을 개발하였고, 이 프로그램을 단일제어봉 낙하시험과 비교하였다. 비교결과 시험 및 해석결과가 잘일치하고 있음으로써 개발된 프로그램의 검증을 확인할 수 있었고, 따라서 이 프로그램이 제어봉및 안내관의 설계변경시 매우 유용하게 사용할 수 있게 되었다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권12호
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• pp.4166-4178
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• 2021

The Control Rod Drive Mechanism (CRDM) is an essential part of the reactor, which realizes the start-stop and power adjustment of the reactor by lifting and lowering the control rod assembly. As a moving part in CRDM, the latch directly contacts with the control rod assembly, and the life of latch is closely related to the service life of the reactor. In this paper, the relationship between the life of the latch and the step stress, friction stress, and impact stress in the process of movement is analyzed, and the optimization methodology and process of latch life based on the approximate model are proposed. The design variables that affect the life of the latch are studied through the experimental design, and the optimization objective of design variables based on the latch life is established. Based on this, an approximate model of the life of the latch is built, and the multi-objective optimization of the life of the latch is optimized through the NSGA-II algorithm.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.391-400
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• 1999

A conceptual core design of the 1,300MWe KNGR (Korean Next Generation Reactor) without using soluble boron for reactivity control was developed to determine whether it is technically feasible to implement SBF (Soluble Boron Free) operation. Based on the borated KNGR core design, the fuel assembly and control rod configuration were modified for extensive use of burnable poison rods and control rods. A new fuel rod, in which Pu-238 had been substituted for a small amount of U-238 in fuel composition, was introduced to assist the reactivity control by burnable poison rods. Since Pu-238 has a considerably large thermal neutron capture cross section, the new fuel assembly showed good reactivity suppression capability throughout the entire cycle turnup, especially at BOC (Beginning of Cycle). Moreover, relatively uniform control of power distribution was possible since the new fuel assemblies were loaded throughout the core. In this study, core excess reactivity was limited to 2.0 %$\delta$$\rho$ for the minimal use of control rods. The analysis results of the SBF KNGR core showed that axial power distribution control can be achieved by using the simplest zoning scheme of the fuel assembly Furthermore, the sufficient shutdown margin and the stability against axial xenon oscillations were secured in this SBF core. It is, therefore, concluded that a SBF operation is technically feasible for a large sized LWR (Light Water Reactor).

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2000년도 제15차 학술회의논문집
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• pp.238-238
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• 2000

In this paper, to increase the utilization of uranium resources contained in the spent fuel, the spent fuel is reused. for this, the spent fuel is dismantled or spent fuel rod is extracted from the spent fuel assembly. Therefore, to achieve the performance of compacting the spent fuel assembly, we proposed the controller consisting of adaptive and fuzzy with teaming algorithm. In order to show the performance of proposed algorithm compares, we compared the controller with conventional controller in plant.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.203-210
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• 2012

주로터 조종 시스템은 헬리콥터의 추력 및 조종력을 담당하는 헬리콥터의 핵심 구성품이다. 주로터 조종 시스템은 스와시플레이트 조립체, 시져 조립체, 피치로드 조립체, 가이드 등으로 구성되어 있으며 추력 및 조종력 등 다양한 하중에 견디고 최적화된 피로 안전 수명을 만족시켜야 한다. 이 시스템 구성품 중 회전형 스와시플레이트는 피치로드 하중과 회전형 시져 하중에 지배적인 영향을 받는 핵심 구성품이다. 본 논문에서는 주로터 조종 시스템의 회전형 스와시플레이트 구성품에 대하여 피로 시험과 FEM 결과 비교를 통해 결과의 정확성을 입증하고, 이를 기반으로 수명을 평가하여 피로 안전수명을 도출하였다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2002년도 하계학술대회 논문집 D
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• pp.2331-2333
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• 2002

In this paper, we propose a new model with the common Control Rod Control System which can be applied to both Korea Standard Nuclear Power Plant model and Westinghouse model. The common model classified by one control rod assembly can solve the common-mode failure. We digitalize the new model and make existing analog models simplified.

• 한국자기학회지
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.154-158
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• 2016

원자력발전소의 원자로에는 노심 반응 속도를 제어하기 위하여 제어봉구동장치가 사용된다. 한국원자력연구원의 SMART 원자로는 원자로 가동 중 제어봉집합체의 위치를 확인하기 위하여 제어봉구동장치에 영구자석과 리드스위치로 구성되는 위치지시기가 설치된다. 원자로 가동 온도는 최대 $350^{\circ}C$로 고려되어 설계되며, 영구자석은 원자로 내에 설치된다. 반면에 리드스위치와 전기회로는 원자로 외부에 설치된다. Test coil은 리드스위치의 품질 검증을 위한 장비로서, 코일과 철심으로 구성되어 있다. 본 연구는 리드스위치에 미치는 Test coil과 영구자석의 자기 특성을 비교하고자 수행되었으며, 유한요소 전자기 시뮬레이션을 활용하였다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권5호
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• pp.1914-1928
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• 2022

To improve the heat transfer efficiency of the reactor fuel assembly, it is necessary to accurately calculate the two-phase flow boiling characteristics and the critical heat flux (CHF) in the fuel assembly. In this paper, a Eulerian two-fluid model combined with the extended wall boiling model was used to numerically simulate the 5 × 5 fuel rod bundle with spacer grids (four sets of mixing vane grids and four sets of simple support grids without mixing vanes). We calculated and analyzed 11 experimental conditions under different pressure, inlet temperature, and mass flux. After comparing the CHF and the location of departure from the nucleate boiling obtained by the numerical simulation with the experimental results, we confirmed the reliability of computational fluid dynamic analysis for the prediction of the CHF of the rod bundle and the boiling characteristics of the two-phase flow. Subsequently, we analyzed the influence of the spacer grid and mixing vanes on the void fraction, liquid temperature, and secondary flow distribution. The research in this article provides theoretical support for the design of fuel assemblies.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.342-352
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• 1998

A nuclear design feasibility of soluble boron free(SBF core for the medium-sized(600MWe) PWR was investigated. The result conformed that soluble boron free operation could be performed by using current PWR proven technologies. Westinghouse advanced reactor, AP-600 was chosen as a design prototype. Design modification was applied for the assembly design with burnable poison and control rod absorber material. In order to control excess reactivity, large amount of gadolinia integral burnable poison rods were used and B4C was used as a control rod absorber material. For control of bottom shift axial power shape due to high temperature feedback in SBF core, axial zoning of burnable poison was applied to the fuel assemblies design. The combination of enrichment and rod number zoning for burnable poison could make an excess reactivity swing flat within around 1% and these also led effective control on axial power offset and peak pin power, The safety assessment of the designed core was peformed by the calculation of MTC, FTC and shutdown margin. MTC in designed SBF core was greater around 6 times than one of Ulchin unit 3&4. Utilization of enriched BIO(up to 50w1o) in B4C shutdown control rods provided enough shutdown margin as well as subcriticality at cold refueling condition.

• 대한용접접합학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한용접접합학회 2006년 추계학술발표대회 개요집
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• pp.289-291
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• 2006