• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.194.1-194
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• 2001

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.374-374
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• 1998

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1999.05a
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• pp.248-248
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• 1999

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.1055-1058
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• 2005

In the ACPF(Advanced spent nuclear fuel Conditioning Process Facility), the spent fuel pellets which are highly radioactive materials are separated with its clad and are fed into the next conditioning process. For this, at the other facility called PIEF(Post Irradiation Examination Facility) a spent fuel rod, 3.5 m long, is cut by 25 cm long which is suitable length fur the decladding process. These rod-cuts are packed into the capsule and are moved to the ACPF. Once the capsule is unloaded in the ACPF, the rod-cut is taken out one-by-one from the capsule and installed on the decladding device. In these processes, the crushed spent fuel pellet can be scattered inside the facilities and thus it contaminate the hot cell. In this paper, we developed the specially designed capsule which prevents the pellets scattering and remarkably reduces the leading and unloading time of the rod-cuts.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.501-512
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• 2014

HANARO is a multipurpose research reactor located at the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI). Since the commencement of its operation in 1995, various neutron irradiation facilities, such as rabbit irradiation facilities, fuel test loop (FTL) facilities, capsule irradiation facilities, and neutron transmutation doping (NTD) facilities, have been developed and actively utilized for various nuclear material irradiation tests requested by users from research institutes, universities, and industries. Most irradiation tests have been related to national R&D relevant to present nuclear power reactors such as the ageing management and safety evaluation of the components. Based on the accumulated experience as well as the sophisticated requirements of users, HANARO has recently supported national R&D projects relevant to new nuclear systems including the System-integrated Modular Advanced Reactor (SMART), research reactors, and future nuclear systems. This paper documents the current state and utilization of irradiation facilities in HANARO, and summarizes ongoing research efforts to deploy advanced irradiation technology.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.31 no.9
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• pp.903-909
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• 2007

A fatigue capsule is one of the special capsules to investigate the fatigue characteristics of the nuclear materials during an irradiation test in a research reactor, HANARO. In this study, the performance test and the preliminary fatigue test results by using a cyclic load device newly developed for a fatigue capsule are described. In order to obtain the characteristics such as a realization and a controllability of the periodic wave shape and the relationship between the pressure and the load, a spring and rigid bar specimens are used. The fatigue test for the 316L stainless steel specimen with 1.8mm in diameter and 12.5mm in gage length is also performed under the same conditions as the temperature($550^{\circ}C$) of the specimen during irradiation tests. As a result of the test, the fracture of the specimen occurs at a total of 70,120 cycles(about 12 days), and the displacement in this case is 2.02 mm. It is expected that these results will be used for determining test conditions and a comparison of the in-pile fatigue test results.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1995.05a
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• pp.617-622
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• 1995

다목적연구로 HANARO를 이용한 압력용기 재료 조사시험에 이용될 계장캡슐(Instrumented Capsule)의 열적, 역학적 특성분석이 수행되었다. 캡슐에 장입될 조사시편의 온도평가는 GENGTC 와 HEATING 7.2f를 이용 계산하였다. 또한 이들 온도분포로 인하여 발생하는 캡슐외통과 End Plug에서의 응력해석은 전산코드 ANSYS를 이용 수행하고, 냉각수압에 의한 캡슐본체의 좌굴응력을 계산함으로서 강도평가를 하였다.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.31-31
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• 2002

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.168-168
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• 2002

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.166-166
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• 2002