• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제49권7호
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• pp.1537-1546
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• 2017

Many thermal-hydraulic tests have been conducted at the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute for verification of the SMART (System-integrated Modular Advanced ReacTor) design, the standard design approval of which was issued by the Korean regulatory body. In this paper, the contributions of these tests to the standard design approval of SMART are discussed. First, an integral effect test facility named VISTA-ITL (Experimental Verification by Integral Simulation of Transients and Accidents-Integral Test Loop) has been utilized to assess the TASS/SMR-S (Transient and Set-point Simulation/Small and Medium) safety analysis code and confirm its conservatism, to support standard design approval, and to construct a database for the SMART design optimization. In addition, many separate effect tests have been performed. The reactor internal flow test has been conducted using the SCOP (SMART COre flow distribution and Pressure drop test) facility to evaluate the reactor internal flow and pressure distributions. An ECC (Emergency Core Coolant) performance test has been carried out using the SWAT (SMART ECC Water Asymmetric Two-phase choking test) facility to evaluate the safety injection performance and to validate the thermal-hydraulic model used in the safety analysis code. The Freon CHF (Critical Heat Flux) test has been performed using the FTHEL (Freon Thermal Hydraulic Experimental Loop) facility to construct a database from the $5{\times}5$ rod bundle Freon CHF tests and to evaluate the DNBR (Departure from Nucleate Boiling Ratio) model in the safety analysis and core design codes. These test results were used for standard design approval of SMART to verify its design bases, design tools, and analysis methodology.

• 방사성폐기물학회지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.219-230
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• 2017

본 연구는 경주 중 저준위처분장 2단계 표층처분시설의 폐쇄 후 안전성에 대한 불확실성을 예측 평가하기 위하여 수행되었다. 다중덮개와 처분고의 건전/열화를 고려한 총4가지의 시나리오를 도출하여 강우침투 시 예상되는 처분시설 내부의 유체 이동을 모사하였다. 강우 조건은 총 30년(1985~2014) 간의 월평균 데이터를 적용하였으며, 시뮬레이션 기간은 제도적 관리기간인 300년으로 설정하였다. 처분덮개와 처분고 콘크리트 모두 건전성을 유지하는 조건의 기본 시나리오 평가 결과, 처분시설 내부의 처분고를 완전히 포화시키지 못하는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 다중 덮개층을 구성하는 8개 층의 각 매질의 모세관 압력과 투과도 차이로 인하여 다중 덮개층이 효과적으로 차수 배수 역할을 하는 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국시스템다이내믹스연구
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.39-57
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• 2011

This paper is the result of simulation modeling concerning high-level radioactive waste repository(HLRWR) and people's mind for the facility. We describe a procedure of simulation modeling for resident's policy acceptance and perceived risk of HLRWR facility by using System Dynamics approach. To Complete some complicated works, we made the 20 pieces of stock-flow diagrams based on the causal loop diagram that is a blue print of whole variables and relations. The simulation outputs clearly show that cental government efforts to siting the HLRWR will be failed if nothing to give for the region's residents. On the contrary, a monetary incentive and a regional development program help to turn this gloomy situation into a desirable and acceptable condition dramatically. Government has to prepare the schemes considering the HLRWR acceptance and total supporting program including the cash and local development programs.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2008년도 제31회 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.411-415
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• 2008

이 논문은 고도모사 시험설비의 전체 사양을 결정에 관계되는 엔진 입구에서의 고도비행 경험을 위한 모의대기 요구 조건, 모의 비행중 쇼요되는 연료 소모량 및 공급 방법, 시험모드별 냉각부하 예측, 효과적인 압력 회복률을 위한 배기 이젝터의 최적형상 결정에 관한 고려사항을 기술하였다. 이를 위하여 엔진의 연료소모량을 고려한 엔진 배기가스의 온도 및 배출량 등의 계산을 수행되었다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권5호
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• pp.1446-1453
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• 2021

In the past, several experimental investigations aiming at characterizing the natural circulation (NC) behavior in test facilities were carried out. They showed a variety of flow patterns characterized by an inverted U-shape of the NC flow curve versus primary mass inventory. On the other hand, attempts to reproduce such curves using thermal-hydraulic system codes, showed 10-30% differences between the measured and calculated NC mass flow rate. Actually, the used computer codes are generally based upon nodalization using single U-tube representation. Such model may not allow getting accurate simulation of most of the NC phenomena occurring during such tests (like flow redistribution and flow reversal in some SG U-tubes). Simulations based on multi-U-tubes model, showed better agreement with the overall behavior, but remain unable to predict NC phenomena taking place in the steam generator (SG) during the experiment. In the current study, the CATHARE code is considered in order to assess a NC characterization test performed in the four loops PKL facility. For this purpose, four different SG nodalizations including, single and multi-U-tubes, 1D and 3D SG inlet/outlet zones are considered. In general, it is shown that the 1D and 3D models exhibit similar prediction results up to a certain point of the rising part of the inverted U-shape of the NC flow curve. After that, the results bifurcate with, on the one hand, a tendency of the 1D models to over-predict the measured NC mass flow rate and on the other hand, a tendency of the 3D models to under-predict the NC flow rate.

• 방사성폐기물학회지
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.143-149
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• 2012

한국원자력연구원의 지하처분연구시설인 KURT 부지에 가상의 심지층 처분 시설을 가정하고 안전성평가를 수행하기 위해 필요한 지하수 유동 자료를 작성하기 위한 지하수 유동 모의가 수행되었다. 연구지역의 전반적인 지하수 유동 특성을 고려하기 위해, 광역 규모의 지하수 유동 모의를 먼저 실시하여 국지 규모 지하수 유동 모의에서 이용될 경계 조건을 구하고, 현장에서 확인된 단열 자료를 반영하여 국지 규모에서의 지하수 유동계가 모의되었다. 같은 방식으로 국지 규모에서 지하수 유동에 관한 경계 조건을 뽑아내어 KURT 부지 규모의 지하수 유동 모의에 이용하였다. 국지 규모의 지하수 유동 모의 결과로 얻어진 지하수위 분포를 통해 입자 추적(particle tracking) 모의를 수행하여 가상의 처분 부지 위치에서 지표로 흐르는 지하수의 유동 경로를 확인하고, 경로의 길이와 지하수의 시간당 유동량(discharge rate)을 구하였다. 본 연구에서 이용된 일련의 지하수 유동 모의 및 입자 추적 모의 방법은 향후 심지층 처분 시설의 안전성 평가에 필요한 자료를 작성하는데 유용하게 쓰일 것으로 기대된다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권4호
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• pp.1555-1562
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• 2023

Natural circulation phenomena have been nowadays largely revisited aiming to investigate the performances of passive safety systems in carrying-out heat removal under accidental conditions. For this purpose, assessment studies using CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) and also 3D thermal-hydraulic system codes are considered at different levels of the design and safety demonstration issues. However, these tools have not being extensively validated for specific natural circulation flow regimes involving flow mixing, temperature stratification, flow recirculation and instabilities. In the present study, an experimental test case based on a small-scale pool test rig experiment performed by Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, is considered for code-to-code and code-to-experimental data comparison. The test simulation is carried out using the FLUENT and the 3D thermal-hydraulic system CATHARE-2 codes. The objective is to evaluate and compare their prediction capabilities with respect to the test conditions of the experiment. It was observed that, notwithstanding their numerical and modelling differences, similar agreement results are obtained. Nevertheless, additional investigations efforts are still needed for a better representation of the considered phenomena.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권8호
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• pp.2477-2487
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• 2021

To improve safety analysis technology for a nuclear reactor containment considering an interaction between a reactor coolant system (RCS) and containment, this study aims at an experimental investigation on the integrated simulation of the RCS and containment, with an integral effect test facility, ATLAS-CUBE. For a realistic simulation of a pressure and temperature (P/T) transient, the containment simulation vessel was designed to preserve a volumetric scale equivalently to the RCS volume scale of ATLAS. Three test cases for a steam line break (SLB) transient were conducted with variation of the initial condition of the passive heat sink or the steam flow direction. The test results indicated a stratified behavior of the steam-gas mixture in the containment following a high-temperature steam injection in prior to the spray injection. The test case with a reduced heat transfer on the passive heat sink showed a faster increase of the P/T inside the containment. The effect of the steam flow direction was also investigated with respect to a multi-dimensional distribution of the local heat transfer on the passive heat sink. The integral effect test data obtained in this study will contribute to validating the evaluation methodology for mass and energy (M/E) and P/T transient of the containment.

• 방사성폐기물학회지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.321-329
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• 2016

가상의 심층처분 부지의 지하수 유동 모의 결과를 통해 처분 심도에 위치하는 처분공 지점에서의 지하수 유동량 및 해당 지점에서 지표 환경까지 지하수가 유동하는 경로의 거리와 경로를 통과하는데 걸리는 시간에 대한 수량적, 공간적 분포를 분석하여 그 결과를 처분공의 위치 결정에 이용할 수 있는 방안을 제시하였다. 지하수 유동량은 처분공 위치에서 계산된 지하수위를, 유동 거리와 경과 시간은 입자 추적 기법(particle tracking)을 이용하여 계산하였다. 지하수 유동량 및 유동 거리와 경과 시간의 공간적 분포를 이용하여 처분시설의 성능을 유지하는데 상대적으로 유리한 위치를 선별하고 특정한 제한 조건이 주어진 경우 제외되어야 하는 처분공 위치를 결정하여 처분공 배치에 이용할 수 있은 방안을 제시하였다. 또한 세 가지 정보를 함께 고려하여, 추가적인 처분공의 위치를 선정할 필요가 있을 경우 보다 유리한 확장 방향을 제시할 수 있는 방안도 논의되었다. 처분 심도에서의 지하수 유동 정보를 활용하여 처분공의 배치 방안을 결정하는 것은 처분시설의 성능 및 안전성 확보를 위해 기여할 수 있을 것으로 생각된다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제50권3호
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• pp.478-487
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• 2018

Pyroprocessing technology has been regarded as a promising solution for recycling spent fuel in nuclear power plants. The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute has been studying the current status of equipment and facilities for pyroprocessing and found that existing facilities are manually operated; therefore, their applications have been limited to laboratory scale because of low productivity and safety concerns. To extend the pyroprocessing technology to a commercial scale, the facility, including all the processing equipment and the material-handling devices, should be enhanced in view of automation. In an automated pyroprocessing facility, a supervised control system is needed to handle and manage material flow and associated operations. This article provides a preliminary design of the supervising system for pyroprocessing. In particular, a manufacturing execution system intended for an automated pyroprocessing facility, named Pyroprocessing Execution System, is proposed, by which the overall production process is automated via systematic collaboration with a planning system and a control system. Moreover, a simulation-based prototype system is presented to illustrate the operability of the proposed Pyroprocessing Execution System, and a simulation study to demonstrate the interoperability of the material-handling equipment with processing equipment is also provided.