• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권7호
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• pp.2687-2696
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• 2023

The fuel operating ranges of fusion tokamak-based power plants are estimated using the improved engineering breakeven equation. The Lawson criterion equations are derived in the form of a triple product with a focus on engineering breakeven and the subbreakeven operating range. The relationship of fuel parameters to the power plant net efficiency is outlined. Analysis shows that the operating ranges of the suitable fuel parameters form a closed area, the size of which affects the net efficiency of the power plant. The obtained fuel operating ranges confirm the well-known fact that DT fuel is currently the only fusion fuel useable in tokamak-based fusion power plants. It is also shown that the energy utilization of pB fuel is possible in the subbreakeven operating range but is conditioned by the very high efficiency of the power plant equipment. For the utilization of DD, DHe3, and pB fuels, the required magnetic fields are indicatively estimated.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제18권34호
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• pp.193-204
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• 1995

Many studies show that the value of the warehouse is good. However, studies explicitly mention the tradeoff between costs of operating the warehouse and benefits from the warehouse. Also, it is important to know when the benefits overcome the costs. We study a one-warehouse/N-retailer(s,Q) distribution system with stochastic lead times in order to answer two questions: "What are the optimal policies of the system that minimizes total system costs\ulcorner" and given the optimal policies, "Is the value of the warehouse always good\ulcorner" We use an analytical model for answering the questions. We find that the optimal policies are different from those with deterministic lead times. In fact it is reverse. We alse find the existence of the breakeven point beyond which the benefits starts overcomming the costs. And, we show that one of the breakeven points is the mean ratio of a supplier's lead time to transportation lead time between the warehouse and the retailer. Finally, we show that the breakeven point is sensitive to the ratio of holding costs of the warehouse and the retailer and it is also sensitive to the unit backorder costs at the retailer.sts at the retailer.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.356-368
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• 2003

Material properties such as coolant specific heat, film heat transfer coefficient, cladding thermal conductivity, surface diffusion coefficient of the multi-bubble are improved in MACSIS-Mod1. The axial power and flux profile module was also incorporated with irradiation history. The performance and feasibility of the updated driver fuel pin have been analyzed for nominal parameters based on the conceptual design for the KALIMER breakeven core by MACSIS-MOD1 code. The fuel slug centerline temperature takes the maximum at 700mm from the bottom of the slug in spite of the nearly symmetric axial power distribution. The cladding mid-wall and coolant temperatures take the maximum at the top of the pin. Temperature of the fuel slug surface over the entire irradiation life is much lower than the fuel-clad eutectic reaction temperature. The fission gas release of the driver fuel pin at the end of life is predicted to be $68.61\%$ and plenum pressure is too low to cause cladding yielding. The probability that the fuel pin would fail is estimated to be much less than that allowed in the design criteria. The maximum radial deformation of the fuel pin is $1.93\%$, satisfying the preliminary design criterion ($3\%$) for fuel pin deformation. Therefore the conceptual design parameters of the driver fuel pin for the KALIMER breakeven core are expected to satisfy the preliminary criteria on temperature, fluence limit, deformation limit etc.

• 에너지공학
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.101-111
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• 2004

액체금속로 노심 열유체 설계의 기본 목표는 노심을 구성하는 집합체에서 발생하는 열량을 효과적으로 추출하기 위해 각각의 집합체 냉각재 유량을 적절히 분배하고, 이에 따른 온도분포가 적절하게 유지되도록 하는 것이다. 노심 열유체 설계 및 특성 분석은 전체노심에 대한 각 집합체의 유량영역을 구분하고, 집합체별 온도분포를 계산하여, 최종적으로 집합체에 대한 상세 부수로 해석을 하는 과정으로 진행된다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 액체금속로의 노심 열유체 설계 방법론을 기술하고, 이를 바탕으로 KALIMER의 증식특성 노심과 breakeven 노심에 대한 열유체 설계와 특성분석을 수행하였다. KALIMER는 원자력 중장기 과제로 개념설계가 진행 중인 전기출력 150MWe, 열출력 392MWth의 금속핵연료를 사용하는 액체 금속로이다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제40권6호
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• pp.517-526
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• 2008

The widespread concern regarding the management of spent fuel that mainly contributes to nuclear waste has led to the development of the sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) as one of the most promising future types of reactors at both national and international levels. Various reactor deployment scenarios with SFR introductions with different conversion ratios in the existing PWR-dominant nuclear fleet have been assessed to optimize the SFR deployment strategy to replace PWRs with the view toward a reduction in the level of spent fuel as well as efficient uranium utilization through its reuse in a closed fuel cycle. An efficient reactor deployment strategy with the SFR introduction starting in 2040 has been drawn based on an SFR deployment strategy in which burners are deployed prior to breakeven reactors to reduce the amount of PWR spent fuel substantially at the early deployment stage. The PWR spent fuel disposal is reduced in this way by 98% and the cumulative uranium demand for PWRs to 2100 is projected to be 445 ktU, implying a uranium savings of 115 ktU. The SFR mix ratio in the nuclear fleet near the year 2100 is estimated to be approximately 35-40%. PWRs will remain as a main power reactor type until 2100 and SFRs will support waste minimization and fuel utilization.

• 에너지공학
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.131-137
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• 1998

본 연구는 회피비용의 정의 및 개념을 소개하고 계산 방법론을 제시하였으며, 사례연구를 통하여 DSM 프로그램의 의사결정에 필요한 회피발전비용을 시산하였다. 본 연구에서 적용한 회피발전비용 계산 앨고리즘인 수요감소법은 전력회사의 DSM 프로그램 도입 전후에 대하여 소요수입의 현금흐름의 비교에 바탕을 둔 것이다. 사례연구에서는 장기 회피발전비용 계산에 필요한 확률적인 운전비 시뮬레이션과 전원개발계획 최적화를 위하여 WASP-Ⅱ 전산모형을 이용하였다. 또한, 효율개선을 통해 최대전력을 감소시킬 수 이는 특정 DSM 대안을 선정하고 우리나라 '95 장기전력수급계획안에 기초하여 회피발전비용을 계산하였다. 시산 결과 DSM 자원에 대한 단위전력량당 회피발전비용은 1995년 불변가격 기준으로 31.3[원/kWh]이며, 이 가운데 회피발전고정비용은 15.0[원/kWh]이고 회피발전변동비용은 16.3[원/kWh]으로 나타났다.

• 한국정보과학회 언어공학연구회:학술대회논문집(한글 및 한국어 정보처리)
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• 한국정보과학회언어공학연구회 1997년도 제9회 한글 및 한국어 정보처리 학술대회
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• pp.7-14
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• 1997

문서 범주화에서 문서의 내용에 따라 적합한 범주의 종류와 수를 찾는 문제를 해결하기 위해서는 문서 당 하나의 범주를 할당할 경우에 가장 좋은 성능을 보이는 모델이 효과적일 것이다. 그러므로, 본 논문에서는 문서 당 하나의 범주를 할당할 경우에 좋은 결과를 보이는 k-nearest neighbor 방법을 이용한다. 그리고 k-nearest neighbor 방법을 이용한 문서 범주화의 성능을 향상시키기 위해서, 문서 표현에 사용하는 단어들을 범주 자질의 성격을 갖는 단어들로 제한하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 Router 신문 일년치로 구성된 Router-21578 테스트 집합에서 breakeven point 82%라는 좋은 결과를 보였다.

• 산업공학
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.279-285
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• 2002

A break-even analysis is a method used widely for profit planning or decisions in most companies. It is useful tool in financial studies because it is simple and offers useful insights from a modest amount of data. Although it is widely used, it has some weaknesses. It is limited in particular to the analysis for a short term time horizon or one period. We suggest a new break-even procedure to analyze projects with a long term time horizon as keeping the simplicity of a conventional break-even analysis. We will make efforts doing to include actual data for a cost or an income as much as possible rather than developing a mathematical model to improve unreality of a traditional break-even analysis. Also, we will use the spreadsheet software to solve problems.

• 에너지공학
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.281-288
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• 2003

The MATRA-LMR code has been developed based on a subchannel analysis method for LMR (Liquid Metal Reactor) core subassembly thermal hydraulic design and analysis. The code was improved to allow a seven assembly calculation and can account for inter-assembly heat transfer based on a lumped parameter model. This paper describes the main modifications and improvements of the code and shows reference calculation results which compared single assembly calculation with seven assembly calculation cased for driver and blanket subassemblies of the KALIMER 150 MWe breakeven conceptual design core. KAL- IMER is a pool-type sodium cooled reactor with a thermal output of 392.0 MWth, which have inherently safe, environmentally friendly, proliferation-resistant and economically viable reactor concepts.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.11-17
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• 2012

Along with the recent trend toward increasing variety and shorter life of products in the market, evaluation of risk for economic investment alternatives is of practical importance in manufacturing companies. This paper assumes that each alternative is composed of demand volume and unit sales price as income factors, and unit variable cost and fixed cost as expense factors. The paper assumes that these four factors move worse from the originally expected values, toward the direction of decreasing profit. Values of these four factors are also assumed to fluctuate from year to year over the entire multi-period. By applying the analysis of the breakeven points to each of the four factors, safer area against these changes is represented on the two dimensional domain called normalized total-cost unit-cost domain. A practical numerical example is analyzed to verify the validity of the proposed method.