• 제목/요약/키워드: Nuclear Emergency

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소방공무원의 화생방테러 응급의료훈련 교육과목 개설에 대한 제언 (A Proposal on the Development of Chemical-Biological-Radiological-Nuclear-Explosive (CBRNE) Emergency Medical Training Program for Fire Officers)

  • 김지희
    • 한국화재소방학회논문지
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    • 제21권4호
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    • pp.99-104
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    • 2007
  • 세계화 추세에 맞추어 우리나라에서 많은 국제회의 및 국제 운동경기가 개최되고 있다. 2001년 미국 911 테러 이후 이라크 파병 등으로 인해 우리나라도 테러로부터 안전지대가 아니라는 불안감의 목소리가 커지고 있는 상황이다. 생물테러와 폭탄테러 등이 세계 곳곳에서 발생하고 있어 우리나라도 소방공무원에 대한 화생방테러 교육훈련의 필요성이 대두되고 있어, 소방공무원을 위한 화생방 응급의료 교육훈련 교과목을 제언하고자 한다.

원자로 비상 냉각재 누설에 의한 열성층의 비정상 특성에 관한 연구 (Study of Thermal Stratification into Leaking Flow in the Nuclear Power Plant, Emergency Core Coolant System)

  • 한성민;최영돈;박민수
    • 설비공학논문집
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    • 제18권3호
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    • pp.202-210
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    • 2006
  • In the nuclear power plant, emergency core coolant system (ECCS) is furnished at reactor coolant system (RCS) in order to cool down high temperature water in case of emergency. However, in this coolant system, thermal stratification phenomenon can be occurred due to coolant leaking in the check valve. The thermal stratification produces excessive thormal stresses at the pipe wall so as to yield thermal fatigue crack (TFC) accident. In the present study, when the turbulence penetration occurs in the branch pipe, the maximum temperature differences of fluid at the pipe cross-sections of the T-branch with thermal stratification are examine.

A flow-directed minimal path sets method for success path planning and performance analysis

  • Zhanyu He;Jun Yang;Yueming Hong
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제56권5호
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    • pp.1603-1618
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    • 2024
  • Emergency operation plans are indispensable elements for effective process safety management especially when unanticipated events occur under extreme situations. In the paper, a synthesis framework is proposed for the integration success path planning and performance analysis. Within the synthesis framework, success path planning is implemented through flow-directed signal tracing, renaming and reconstruction from a complete collection of Minimal Path Sets (MPSs) that are obtained using graph traversal search on GO-FLOW model diagram. The performance of success paths is then evaluated and prioritized according to the task complexity and probability calculation of MPSs for optimum action plans identification. Finally, an Auxiliary Feed Water System of Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR-AFWS) is taken as an example system to demonstrate the flow-directed MPSs search method for success path planning and performance analysis. It is concluded that the synthesis framework is capable of providing procedural guidance for emergency response and safety management with optimal success path planning under extreme situations.

원자력발전소 비상전력계통 강화 방안에 따른 리스크 영향 평가 (A Risk Impact Assessment According to the Reliability Improvement of the Emergency Power Supply System of a Nuclear Power Plant)

  • 전호준
    • 한국안전학회지
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    • 제27권5호
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    • pp.224-228
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    • 2012
  • According to the results of Probabilistic Safety Assessment(PSA) for a Nuclear Power Plant(NPP), an Emergency Power Supply(EPS) system has been considered as one of the most important safety system. Especially, the interests in the reliability of the EPS system have been increased after the severe accidents of Fukushima Daiichi. Firstly, we performed the risk assessment and the importance analysis of the EPS system based on the PSA models of the reference plant, which is the Korean standard NPP type. Considering a portable Diesel Generator(DG) system as the reliability reinforcement of the EPS system, we modified the PSA models and performed the risk impact assessment and the importance analysis. Although the reliability of the potable DG could be about 20% of the reliability of the alternative AC DG, we identified that Core Damage Frequency(CDF) was decreased by at least 4.6%. In addition, the risk impacts due to the unavailability of the EPS system on CDF were decreased.

Application of the new ICRP iodine biokinetic model for internal dosimetry in case of thyroid blocking

  • Kwon, Tae-Eun;Chung, Yoonsun;Ha, Wi-Ho;Jin, Young Woo
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제52권8호
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    • pp.1826-1833
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    • 2020
  • Administration of stable iodine has been considered a best measure to protect the thyroid from internal irradiation by radioiodine intake, and its efficacy on thyroid protection has been quantitatively evaluated in several simulation studies on the basis of simple iodine biokinetic models (i.e., three-compartment model). However, the new iodine biokinetic model adopted by the International Commission on Radiological Protection interprets and expresses the thyroid blocking phenomenon differently. Therefore, in this study, the new model was analyzed in terms of thyroid blocking and implemented to reassess the protective effects and to produce dosimetric data. The biokinetic model calculation was performed using computation modules developed by authors, and the results were compared with those of experimental data and prior simulation studies. The new model predicted protective effects that were generally consistent with those of experimental data, except for those in the range of stable iodine administration -72 h before radioiodine exposure. Additionally, the dosimetric data calculated in this study demonstrates a critical limitation of the three-compartment model in predicting bioassay functions, and indicated that dose assessment 1 d after exposure would result in a similar dose estimate irrespective of the administration time of stable iodine.

원전 비상 노심냉각계통 배관 열성층화 현상 규명을 위한 실험적 연구 (Experimental Research for Identification of Thermal Stratification Phenomena in The Nuclear Powerplant Emergency Core Coolant System(ECCS).)

  • 송도인;최영돈;박민수
    • 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한기계학회 2001년도 추계학술대회논문집B
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    • pp.735-740
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    • 2001
  • In the nuclear power plant, emergency core coolant system(ECCS) is furnished at reactor coolant system(RCS) in order to cool down high temperature water in case of emergency. However, in this coolant system, it occurs thermal stratification phenomena in case that there is the mixing of cooling water and high temperature water due to valve leakage in ECCS. This thermal stratification phenomena raises excessive thermal stresses at pipe wall. Therefore, this phenomena causes the accident that reactor coolant flows in reactor containment in the nuclear power plant due to the deformation of pipe and thermal fatigue crack(TFC) at the pipe wall around the place that it exists. Hence, in order to fundamental identification of this phenomena, it requires the experimental research of modeling test in the pipe flow that occurs thermal stratification phenomena. So, this paper models RCS and ECCS pipe arrangement and analyzes the mechanism of thermal stratification phenomena by measuring of temperature in variance with leakage flow rate in ECCS modeled pipe and Reynold number in RCS modeled pipe. Besides, results of this experiment is compared with computational analysis which is done in advance.

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A Study on Design of the Trip Computer for ECC System Based on Dynamic Safety System

  • Kim, Seog-Nam;Seong, Poong-Hyun
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제32권4호
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    • pp.316-327
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    • 2000
  • The Emergency Core Cooling System in current nuclear power plants typically has a considerable number of complex functions and largely cumbersome operator interfaces. Functions for initiation, switch-over between various phases of operation, interlocks, monitoring, and alarming are usually performed by relays and analog comparator logic which are difficult to maintain and test. To improve problems of an analog based ECC (Emergency Core Cooling) System, the trip computer for ECCS based on Dynamic Safety System (DSS) is implemented. The DSS is a computer based reactor protection system that has fail-safe nature and performs a dynamic self-testing. The most important feature of the DSS is the introduction of test signal that send the system into a tripped state. The test signals are interleaved with the plant signals to produce an output which switches between a tripped and health state. The dynamic operation is a key feature of the failsafe design of the system. In this work, a possible implementation of the DSS using PLC is presented for a CANDU Reactor. ECC System of the CANDU Reactor is selected as the reference system.

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Development of a radiological emergency evacuation model using agent-based modeling

  • Hwang, Yujeong;Heo, Gyunyoung
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제53권7호
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    • pp.2195-2206
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    • 2021
  • In order to mitigate the damage caused by accidents in nuclear power plants (NPPs), evacuation strategies are usually managed on the basis of off-site effects such as the diffusion of radioactive materials and evacuee traffic simulations. However, the interactive behavior between evacuees and the accident environment has a significant effect on the consequential gap. Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a method that can control and observe such interactions by establishing agents (i.e., the evacuees) and patches (i.e., the accident environments). In this paper, a radiological emergency evacuation model is constructed to realistically check the effectiveness of an evacuation strategy using NetLogo, an ABM toolbox. Geographic layers such as radiation sources, roads, buildings, and shelters were downloaded from an official geographic information system (GIS) of Korea, and were modified into respective patches. The dispersion model adopted from the puff equation was also modified to fit the patches on the geographic layer. The evacuees were defined as vehicle agents and a traffic model was implemented by combining the shortest path search (determined by an A * algorithm) and a traffic flow model incorporated in the Nagel-Schreckenberg cellular automata model. To evaluate the radiological harm to the evacuees due to the spread of radioactive materials, a simple exposure model was established to calculate the overlap fraction between the agents and the dispersion patches. This paper aims to demonstrate that the potential of ABM can handle disaster evacuation strategies more realistically than previous approaches.