• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.242-249
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• 2002

The relationship between the tritium release rate from the nuclear power plant and tritium concentration in the environment around the Kori site was modeled. The tritium concentration in the atmosphere was calculated by multiplying the release rates and $\chi$/Q values, and the d3V deposition rate at each sector according to the direction and the distance was obtained using a dry deposition velocity. The area around Kori site was divided into 6 zones according to the deposition rate. The six zones were divided into 14 compartments for the numerical simulation. Transfer coefficients between the compartments were derived using site characterization data. Source terms were calculated from the dry deposition rates. Tritium concentration in surface soil water and groundwater was calculated based upon a compartment model. The semi-analytical solution of the compartment model was obtained with a computer program, AMBER. The results showed that most of tritium deposited onto the land released into the atmosphere and the sea. Also, the estimated concentration in the top soil agreed well to that measured. Using the model, tritium concentration was predicted in the case that the tritium release rates were doubled.

• 물과 미래
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.67-72
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• 1991

단일지점(Single Site)에 대한 하천유량의 추계학적인 모의 발생을 위해서는 간단한 모델중의 하나로 Univariate AR(1) 모델이 흔히 쓰여왔다. 그러나 다지점(Multi Sites)에 대한 하천유량에 관한 추계학적인 모의발생은 지점간 서로의 연관성 때문에 단일지점을 위한 모의발생처럼 쉽게 해결되지 않았다. 본 연구에서는 미국 아이다호주의 Camas Creek 유역에 대하여 하나의 키이지점(Key Station)과 주변에 세 개의 종속지점(Subordinate Station)을 설정하고 다변량 AR(1)모델을 적용하여 모의발생된 월유량과 실측치를 통계적으로 비교, 분석하였다. 모의 발생된 월유량과 실측치를 평균, 분산, 왜곡도, 상관관계등에 의해 비교, 분석한 결과 모이 발생된 월유량과 실측치는 통계적으로 서로 유사성을 보였다.

• 한국지형학회지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.61-81
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• 2017

Traditional approaches to surface moisture problems in the context of aeolian research have focused on the initiation of sand movement, developing various models for predicting threshold velocity on a wet surface. They have been unsatisfactory, however, in explaining field observations because they have not incorporated spatiotemporal variability of surface moisture, the interactions between transported sand grains and surface, and the role of aeolian transport in controlling surface moisture. As Nield (2011) showed, a simplified numerical model can be used to investigate this issue. This research aims to explore the feedback structures between aeolian transport and surface moisture using a modified sand slab model. Key modifications are the introduction of simultaneous updating scheme for all the slabs and moisture-assigning procedures with and without aeolian transport. The major findings are as follows. Moist surface conditions suppress sand slab movement, leading to the development of smaller-scale topography. Available sands for aeolian transport are determined by the vertical patterns of moisture content with its variations from groundwater to the surface. Sand patches on a wet surface act as a localized source area. Sand movement drives immediate changes in surface moisture rather than time-lag reponses, mostly when moist conditions are dominant.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.385-390
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• 2005

The effect of the Wolsong Tritium Removal Facility on the change of tritium concentration in the soil water was assessed by introducing a dynamic compartment model. For the mathematical modeling, the tritium in the environment was thought to come from two different sources. Three global tritium cycling models were compared with the natural background concentration. The dynamic compartment model was used to model the behavior of the tritium from the nuclear power plants at the Wolsong site. The source term for the dynamic compartment model was calculated with the dry and wet deposition rates. The area around the Wolsong nuclear power plants was represented by the compartments. The mechanisms considered in deriving the transfer coefficients between the compartments were evaporation, runoff, infiltration, hydrodynamic dispersion, and groundwater flow. We predicted what the change of the tritium concentration around the Wolsong nuclear power plants would be after future operation of the tritium removal facility to show the applicability of the model. The results showed that the operation of the tritium removal facility would reduce the tritium concentration in topsoil water quickly.

• 방사성폐기물학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.113-121
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• 2021

A safety assessment of radioactive waste repositories is a mandatory requirement process because there are possible radiological hazards owing to radionuclide migration from radioactive waste to the biosphere. For a reliable safety assessment, it is important to establish a parameter database that reflects the site-specific characteristics of the disposal facility and repository site. From this perspective, solubility, a major geochemical parameter, has been chosen as an important parameter for modeling the migration behavior of radionuclides. The solubilities were derived for Am, Ni, Tc, and U, which were major radionuclides in this study, and on-site groundwater data reflecting the operational conditions of the Gyeongju low and intermediate level radioactive waste (LILW) repository were applied to reflect the site-specific characteristics. The radiation dose was derived by applying the solubility and radionuclide inventory data to the RESRAD-OFFSITE code, and sensitivity analysis of the dose according to the solubility variation was performed. As a result, owing to the low amount of radionuclide inventory, the dose variation was insignificant. The derived solubility can be used as the main input data for the safety assessment of the Gyeongju LILW repository in the future.

• 방사성폐기물학회지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.269-278
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• 2022

The buffer is a critical barrier component in an engineered barrier system, and its purpose is to prevent potential radionuclides from leaking out from a damaged canister by filling the void in the repository. No experimental parameters exist that can describe the buffer expansion phenomenon when Kyeongju bentonite, which is a buffer candidate material available in Korea, is exposed to groundwater. As conventional experiments to determine these parameters are time consuming and complicated, simple swelling pressure tests, numerical modeling, and machine learning are used in this study to obtain the parameters required to establish a numerical model that can simulate swelling. Swelling tests conducted using Kyeongju bentonite are emulated using the COMSOL Multiphysics numerical analysis tool. Relationships between the swelling phenomenon and mechanical parameters are determined via an artificial neural network. Subsequently, by inputting the swelling tests results into the network, the values for the mechanical parameters of Kyeongju bentonite are obtained. Sensitivity analysis is performed to identify the influential parameters. Results of the numerical analysis based on the identified mechanical parameters are consistent with the experimental values.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2023년도 학술발표회
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• pp.16-16
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• 2023

기후변화로 인한 가뭄, 홍수, 녹조 등 이상기후 현상들이 본격화함에 따라 안정적인 수자원 관리의 필요성이 증가하고 있다. 특히 급변하는 환경조건 속에서도 안정적인 수자원 확보를 가능하게 하는 지하수 자원의 적극적인 활용은 기후변화대응에 있어 핵심적인 요소이다. 지하수는 하천, 호수 연안지역 등 다양한 지표의 수문환경과 연결되어 천층지권의 수문생태적 특성을 결정하기 때문에, 지속가능한 수자원 활용을 위해서는 지하수와 지표수의 상호작용에 대한 통합적인 검토가 이루어져야 한다. 하지만 긴밀하게 연계된 특성에도 불구하고 지하수와 지표수에 대한 연구는 오랜기간 개별수문환경에 대해 독립적으로 수행되어왔다. 이러한 연구경향은 저류시간이 크게 다른 지하수와 지표수의 수문적 특성뿐 아니라 개별수문환경에서 나타나는 작용들을 통합적으로 다룰 수 있는 모델의 부제에도 기인한다. 최근 비약적인 연산능력의 향상과 함께 지하수-지표수 환경을 연계한 통합수문모델(Integrated Hydrology Model)의 개발 및 활용이 이루어짐에 따라 기후변화 및 수자원 활용에 따른 수문환경변화 대한 통합적인 연구 시도가 이루어지고 있다. 본 발표에서는 최근의 통합수문모델과 다중요소 반응성 운송 모형(Multicomponent Reactive Transport Model)의 연계를 통한 물질순환 연구의 최신 동향을 소개하고(농도-유량 상관관계, 지표수계의 화학적 풍화와 이산화탄소 저감, 녹조 등), 데이터 기반 모형을 통한 통합수문모델의 연산 효율 및 정확성 향상을 위한 방법에 대해 모색하고자 한다.

• 방사성폐기물학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.465-479
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• 2023

To ensure the safety of disposal facilities for radioactive waste, it is essential to quantitatively evaluate the performance of the waste disposal facilities by using safety assessment models. This paper addresses the development of the safety assessment model for the underground silo of Wolseong Low-and Immediate-Level Waste (LILW) disposal facility in Korea. As the simulated result, the nuclides diffused from the waste were kept inside the silo without the leakage of those while the integrity of the concrete is maintained. After the degradation of concrete, radionuclides migrate in the same direction as the groundwater flow by mainly advection mechanism. The release of radionuclides has a positive linear relationship with a half-life in the range of medium half-life. Additionally, the solidified waste form delays and reduces the migration of radionuclides through the interaction between the nuclides and the solidified medium. Herein, the phenomenon of this delay was implemented with the mass transfer coefficient of the flux node at numerical modeling. The solidification effects, which are delaying and reducing the leakage of nuclides, were maintained the integrity of the nuclides. This effect was decreased by increasing the half-life and the mass transfer coefficient of radionuclides.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.109-119
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• 2023

Ground subsidence in urban areas due to excessive development and degraded underground facilities is a serious problem. Geophysical surveys have been conducted to estimate the distribution and scale of cavities and subsidence. In this study, electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) was performed near an area of road subsidence in an urban area. The subsidence arose due to groundwater leakage that carried soil into a neighboring excavation site. The ERT survey line was located between the main subsidence area and an excavation site. Because ERT data are affected by rapid topographic changes and surrounding structures, the influence of the excavation site on the data was analyzed through field-scale numerical modeling. The effect of an excavation should be considered when interpreting ERT data because it can lead to wrong anomalous results. A method for performing 2D inversion after correcting resistivity data for the effect of the excavation site was proposed. This method was initially tested using a field-scale numerical model that included the excavation site and subsurface anomaly, which was a loosened zone, and was then applied to field data. In addition, ERT data were interpreted using an existing in-house 3D algorithm, which considered the effect of excavation sites. The inversion results demonstrated that conductive anomalies in the loosened zone were greater compared to the inversion that did not consider the effects of excavation.

• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제55권12호
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• pp.999-1009
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• 2022

춘천 물로리 지역은 지방상수도가 보급되지 않은 물복지 소외지역으로 복류수 및 지하수를 수원으로 하는 소규모 급수시설로 마을에 물을 공급하고 있다. 가뭄시 물부족 문제를 해결하고 증가하는 물수요에 대비하기 위해 계곡에 연하여 샌드댐을 설치하였으며, 2022년 5월부터 이 시설을 운영하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 과거 가뭄시 샌드댐이 있을 경우의 물공급 신뢰도를 평가하기 위해 MODFLOW모형을 이용한 지하수유출량 모의결과를 활용하여 미계측 기간인 2011년부터 2020년까지의 유입량 자료를 생성하였다. 기존 취수원과 샌드댐이 위치한 곳의 상류부 유역에 대해 SWAT-K 유역수문모델링을 수행하여 지하수유출량을 산정하고, 2021년 월별 지하수유출량에 대한 그 이전 10년 동안의 각 월별 지하수유출량의 상대적 비율을 구한 후 2021년 유입량 시계열 자료에 이 비율을 적용하여 2011년부터 2020년까지의 과거 유입량 자료를 생성하였다. 수요량 20 m³/일, 50 m³/일, 100 m³/일 세 가지 경우에 대해 과거 극한 가뭄시의 물공급 가능여부를 분석한 결과, 샌드댐 설치로 물공급 신뢰도가 증가하는 것을 확인 할 수 있으며, 수요량 100 m³/일인 경우에는 기존 취수원과 샌드댐을 연계 운영해야만 신뢰도 90%를 넘는 것으로 분석되었다. 세 가지 운영조건 모두 물공급 신뢰도 95%를 기준으로는 수요량 50 m³/일 이상, 신뢰도 99%를 기준으로는 수요량 30 m³/일 이상을 만족하는 것으로 평가되었다.