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Tritium Fuel Cycle Technology of ITER Project (ITER 사업의 삼중수소 연료주기 기술)

  • Yun, Sei-Hun;Chang, Min-Ho;Kang, Hyun-Goo;Kim, Chang-Shuk;Cho, Seung-Yon;Jung, Ki-Jung;Chung, Hong-Suk;Song, Kyu-Min
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.56-64
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    • 2012
  • The ITER fuel cycle is designed for DT operation in equimolar ratio. It involves not only a group of fuelling system and torus cryo-pumping system of the exhaust gases through the divertor from the torus in tokamak plant, but also from the exhaust gas processing of the fusion effluent gas mixture connected to the hydrogen isotope separation in cryogenic distillation to the final safe storage & delivery of the hydrogen isotopes in tritium plant. Tritium plant system supplies deuterium and tritium from external sources and treats all tritiated fluids in ITER operation. Every operation and affairs is focused on the tritium inventory accountancy and the confinement. This paper describes the major fuel cycle processes and interfaces in the tritium plant in aspects of upcoming technologies for future hydrogen and/or hydrogen isotope utilization.

Optical Characteristics of CdSe/ZnS Quantum Dot with Precursor Flow Rate Synthesized by using Microreactor (마이크로리액터를 이용한 전구체 유속에 따른 CdSe/ZnS 양자점의 광학특성)

  • Park, Ji Young;Jeong, Da-Woon;Ju, Won;Seo, Han Wook;Cho, Yong-Ho;Kim, Bum Sung
    • Journal of Powder Materials
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.91-94
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    • 2016
  • High-quality colloidal CdSe/ZnS (core/shell) is synthesized using a continuous microreactor. The particle size of the synthesized quantum dots (QDs) is a function of the precursor flow rate; as the precursor flow rate increases, the size of the QDs decreases and the band gap energy increases. The photoluminescence properties are found to depend strongly on the flow rate of the CdSe precursor owing to the change in the core size. In addition, a gradual shift in the maximum luminescent wave (${\lambda}_{max}$) to shorter wavelengths (blue shift) is found owing to the decrease in the QD size in accordance with the quantum confinement effect. The ZnS shell decreases the surface defect concentration of CdSe. It also lowers the thermal energy dissipation by increasing the concentration of recombination. Thus, a relatively high emission and quantum yield occur because of an increase in the optical energy emitted at equal concentration. In addition, the maximum quantum yield is derived for process conditions of 0.35 ml/min and is related to the optimum thickness of the shell material.

Safety evaluation of type B transport container for tritium storage vessel (B형 삼중수소 운반용기 안정성 평가)

  • Lee, Min-Soo;Paek, Seung-Woo;Kim, Kwang-Rag;Ahn, Do-Hee;Yim, Sung-Paal;Chung, Hong-Suk;Choi, Heui-Joo;Choi, Jeong-Won;Son, Soon-Hwan;Song, Kyu-Min
    • Journal of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology(JNFCWT)
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.155-169
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    • 2007
  • A transport container for a 500 kCi tritium storage vessel was developed, which could be used for the transport of metal tritide from Wolsong TRF facility to a disposal site. The structural, thermal, shielding, and confinement analyses were performed for the container in a view of Type B. As a result of structural analysis, the developed container sustained its integrity under normal and accidental conditions. The maximum temperature increase of the inner storage vessel by radiation was evaluated at $134.8^{\circ}C at room temperature. In $800^{\circ}C$ fire test, The thermal barrier of container sustained the inner vessel at $405^{\circ}C after 30 min, which temperature was allowable for the container integrity since maximum design temperature of inner vessel was $550^{\circ}C. In the evaluation of the shielding, the activity of radiation was nearly zero on the outer surface of inner vessel. Consequently the transport container for a 500 kCi tritium was evaluated to pass all the safety tests including accidental condition, so it was concluded that the designed transport container is proper to be used.

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Design of Magnetic Systems for SNUT-79 Tokamak (SNUT-79 토카막의 자장 계통 설계)

  • Cheol Hee Nam;Sang Hee Hong;Kie Hyung Chung;Sang Ryul In
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.89-96
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    • 1984
  • A toroidal-field (TF) coil with a pure tension D-shape curve is designed for the confinement of high-temperature plasmas in the SNUT-79, which is a tokamak being built at Seoul National University. A toroidal assembly of 16 D-shape TF coils is designed to produce the magnetic field of up to 3T, of which ripples appear to be below 4% of the average toroidal field in the plasma region. Exact positions and currents in six equilibrium coils distributed symmetrically in the z=0 plane are found by the solution of a set of linear equations which is transformed from a Fredholm integral equation of the first kind. The decay indices resulted from equilibrium field indicate that the stability condition for vertical and horizontal displacements is satisfied.

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Fabrication of Si quantum dots superlattice embedded in SiC matrix (SiC 매트릭스를 이용한 실리콘 양자점 초격자 박막 제조)

  • Kim, Hyun-Jong;Moon, Ji-Hyun;Cho, Jun-Sik;Chang, Bo-Yun;Ko, Chang-Hyun;Park, Sang-Hyun;Yoon, Kyung-Hoon;Song, Jin-Soo;O, Byung-Sung;Lee, Jeong-Chul
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.06a
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    • pp.163-166
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    • 2009
  • 다중접합 초 고효율 태양전지 제조를 위해 SiC 매트릭스를 이용한 실리콘 양자점 초격자 박막을 제조하고 특성을 분석하였다. $SiC/Si_{1-x}C_x$(x ~ 0.31)로 실리콘 양자점 초격자 박막을 Si과 C target을 이용한 co-sputtering법으로 초격자 박막을 제조하고, $1000^{\circ}C$에서 20분간 열처리를 하였다. high resolution transmission electron microscopy 사진으로 약1~7nm 크기인 양자점 생성과 분포 밀도를 확인할 수 있었으며, grazing incident X-ray diffraction (GIXRD)를 통해서 Si(111)과 $\beta$-SiC(111)이 생성되었음을 알 수 있었다. Auger electron spectroscopy (AES)측정에서 stoichiometric SiC층과 Si-rich SiC층의 Si 원자농도 (56%, 69%)와 C 원자 농도 (44%, 31%)를 알 수 있었으며, Fourier transform infra-red spectroscopy (FTIR)측정에서 SiC 픽의 위치가 767에서 $800cm^{-1}$으로 이동하는 것을 알 수 있었다.

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The Genetic and Non-Genetic Aspects of Leg Weakness and Osteochondrosis in Pigs - Review -

  • Fukawa, K.;Kusuhara, S.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.114-122
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    • 2001
  • Leg weakness in pigs is one of the most serious problems in the pig industry. Leg weakness is responsible for an increase in the rate of culling of breeding pigs, which results in economic loss in the pig industry. Many researchers have investigated the cause of leg weakness, and that of osteochondrosis, in pigs, as well as in other mammals. For evaluating leg weakness, subjective scoring criteria have been applied, but the scoring systems varied widely. Subjective scoring systems have also been used in evaluating osteochondrosis lesions in leg joints. The lesions were scored optically, radiographically and histologically. Leg weakness and osteochondrosis are to some extent heritable traits. The heritability of leg weakness and joint lesion scores was found to range from 0.01 to 0.42. Leg weakness and osteochondrosis are associated with production traits (lean percentage and back fat depth). Nutritional aspects of leg weakness and osteochondrosis have also been extensively studied. Although the energy level of the diet may affect leg weakness and osteochondrosis, other nutritional factors seem to have very little effect. Confinement conditions also have an effect on leg weakness and osteochondrosis. Although studied extensively, the cause and etiology of leg weakness and osteochondrosis remain uncertain. It could be that there are multiple causes of leg weakness.

Influence of Quantum well Thickness Fluctuation on Optical Properties of InGaN/GaN Multi Quantum well Structure Grown by PA-MBE

  • Woo, Hyeonseok;Kim, Jongmin;Cho, Sangeun;Jo, Yongcheol;Roh, Cheong Hyun;Kim, Hyungsang;Hahn, Cheol-Koo;Im, Hyunsik
    • Applied Science and Convergence Technology
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.52-54
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    • 2017
  • An InGaN/GaN multiple quantum well (MQW) structure is grown on a GaN/sapphire template using a plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy (PA-MBE). The fluctuation of the quantum well thickness formed from roughly-grown InGaN layer results in a disordered photoluminescence (PL) spectrum. The surface morphologies of the InGaN layers with various In compositions are investigated by reflection high energy electron diffraction (RHEED) and atomic force microscopy (AFM). A blurred InGaN/GaN hetero-interface and the non-uniform QW size is confirmed by high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HR-TEM). Inhomogeneity of the quantum confinement results in a degradation of the quantum efficiency even though the InGaN layer has a uniform In composition.

A Study on the Ductility of Concrete-Filled Composite Columns under Cyclic Loading (반복하중을 받는 콘크리트충전 강합성 기둥의 연성에 관한 연구)

  • 송준엽;권영봉;김성곤
    • Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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    • v.5 no.6
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    • pp.11-19
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    • 2001
  • A series of test on concrete-filled composite columns was preformed to evaluate structural performance under axial compression and cyclic lateral loading. It was presented that concrete-filled composite columns had high strength, high stiffness and large energy-absorption capacity on account of mutual confinement between the steel plate and filled-in concrete. A cross section analysis procedure developed to predict the moment-curvature relation of composite columns was proven to be on accurate and effective method. The ductility factor and the response modification factor were evaluated for the seismic design of concrete-filled composite columns. It was shown that concrete-filled composite columns could be used as a very efficient earthquake-resistant structural member.

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Fabrication of dual wavelength photodetector using quantum well intermixing (다중양자우물의 상호 섞임 현상을 이용한 다중 파장 검출기의 제작)

  • 여덕호;윤경훈;김항로;김성준
    • Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2000.02a
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    • pp.10-11
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    • 2000
  • 광통신을 이용한 근거리 전송과 장거리 전송에서 1.3 및 1.55 $mu extrm{m}$ 파장 영역의 빛이 사용되고 있다. 향후, 각 가정마다 광선로를 연결하는 Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH)의 개념과 광CATV가 발전함에 따라 1.3 및 1.55 $\mu\textrm{m}$ 빛을 검출하는 소자와 송신하는 소자가 필요하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 다중파장을 검출할 수 있는 집적소자를 제작 및 측정하였다. 본 논문에서 사용된 epitaxial layer의 구조는 N-InP 기판 위에 1 $\mu\textrm{m}$의 n-InP buffer층, 5층의InGaAs/InGaAsP 다중양자우물과 0.2 $\mu\textrm{m}$ InGaAsP separate confinement heterostructure (SCH) 층, 0.5$\mu\textrm{m}$ InP clad층과 0.1 $\mu\textrm{m}$ InGaAs cap 층으로 구성되어있다. 모든 epi 층은 InP 기판에 격자 정합이 되어있다. 다중양자우물구조는 84 $\AA$의 InGaAs 우물층과 100 $\AA$의 InGaAsP 장벽층으로 구성되며, 상온에서 0.787 eV (1.575 $\mu\textrm{m}$)의 bandgap energy를 갖도록 설계하였다. (중략)

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Structural Steel as Boundary Elements in Ductile Concrete Walls

  • Cho, Soon-Ho
    • KCI Concrete Journal
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.73-84
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    • 2000
  • A new form of construction utilizing structural steel as the boundary elements in ductile flexural concrete walls is proposed to solve the bar congestion problems in such a heavily reinforced region, while maintaining the ductility and energy absorption capacity comparable to their traditional form. Two wall specimens containing rectangular hollow structural sections (HSS) and channels at their ends respectively, and one companion standard reinforced concrete wall specimen with concentrated end reinforcement were constructed and tested under reversed cyclic loading to evaluate the construction process as well as the structural performance. Initially, all three specimens were chosen and detailed with some caution to have approximately the same flexural capacity without change of the original shape and dimension of a rectangular cross section correction. Analysis and comparison of test results indicated that the reversed cyclic responses of three walls showed similar hysteretic properties, but in those with steel boundaries, local buckling of the corresponding steel webs and flanges following significant yielding was a dominant factor to determine the hysteretic response. The monotonic and cyclic responses predicted based on a sectional approach was also presented and found to be in good agreement with measured results. Design recommendations considering local instability of the structural steel elements and the interaction between steel chords and a concrete web member in such a composite wall are presented.

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