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A System Dynamics Approach for Valuing Nuclear Power Technology (System Dynamics를 이용한 원자력발전의 기술가치 평가)

  • Lee, Yong-Suk
    • Korean System Dynamics Review
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.57-80
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    • 2006
  • Nuclear technology made a great contribution to the national economy and society by localization of nuclear power plant design, and by stabilization of electricity price, etc. It is very important to conduct the retrospective analysis for the nuclear technology contribution to the national economy and society, but it is more important to conduct prospective analysis for the nuclear technology contribution. The term "technology value" is often used in the prospective analysis to value the result of technology development. There are various definitions of technology value, but generally it means the increment of future revenue or the reduction of future cost by technology development. These technology valuation methods are widely used in various fields (information technology or energy technology, etc). The main objective of this research is to develop valuation methodology that represents unique characteristics of nuclear power technology. The valuation methodology that incorporates market share changes of generation technologies was developed. The technology valuation model which consists of five modules (electricity demand forecast module, technology development module, market share module, electricity generation module, total cost module) to incorporate market share changes of generation technologies was developed. The nuclear power technology value assessed by this technology valuation model was 3 times more than the value assessed by the conventional method. So it was confirmed that it is very important to incorporates market share changes of generation technologies. The valuation results of nuclear power technology in this study can be used as policy data for ensuring the benefits of nuclear power R&D (Research and Development) investment.

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A Study on Requirement of Nuclear Power Plant Load Following Operation Condition Considering Power System Security (계통 안전성을 고려한 원자력발전의 부하추종 요건연구)

  • Lee, Hyun-Chul;Baek, Young-Sik;Lee, Geun-Joon
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.61 no.11
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    • pp.1565-1570
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    • 2012
  • Nuclear power generation is increasing domestic power supply ratio by lower CO2 emission and fuel prices. Currently, nuclear power generator has been operated with maximum power output. Therefore, nuclear power generator could be no effect to managing the reactive power reserve on power system. The reactive power reserve is calculated to the difference between maximum facility and operation generation capacity of the power system. This paper was proposed that load following of nuclear power is control by using 15-bus power system model. In the simulation result, power system is shown to safety state by operating load following of nuclear power generator. This method has be improved the supplied reliability through economic and efficient operation.

Design of a generator control system for small nuclear distributed generation

  • Yoon, Dong-Hee;Jang, Gil-Soo
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.311-318
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    • 2011
  • Small-scale reactors have recently attracted attention as a potential power generation source for the future. The Regional Energy Research Institute for Next Generation is currently developing a small-scale reactor called Regional Energy rX 10 MVA (REX-10). The current paper deals with a power system to be used with small-scale reactors for multi-purpose regional energy systems. This small nuclear system can supply electric and thermal energy like a co-generation system. The electrical model of the REX-10 has been developed as a part of the SCADA system. REX-10's dynamic and electromagnetic performance on the power system is analyzed. Simulations are carried out on a test system based on Ulleung Island's power system to validate REX-10 availability on a power system. RSCAD/RTDS and PSS/E software tools are used for the simulation.

A Study on Recalculating Nuclear Energy Generation Cost Considering Several External Costs

  • Kim, Hyun-Jung;Yee, Eric
    • Journal of Power System Engineering
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.5-10
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    • 2018
  • Nuclear energy issues such as safety and social acceptance can not only influence the production costs of generating nuclear power, but also the external costs that are not reflected in market prices. Consequently, the social issues affiliated with nuclear power, beyond a severe accident, require some form of financial expense. The external social issues considered here are accident risk and realization, regulatory costs, and nuclear energy policy costs. Through several calculations and analyses of these external costs for nuclear power generation, it is concluded that these costs range from 7 to 27 \/kWh. Considering external costs are required for making energy plans, it could have an influence on generation costs.

Priority Rankings of the System Modifications to Reduce Core Damage Frequency of Wolsong NPP Units 2/3/4

  • Kwon, Jong-Jooh;Kim, Myung-Ki;Seo, Mi-Ro;Hong, Sung-Yull
    • Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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    • 1998.05a
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    • pp.899-905
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    • 1998
  • The analysis priority makings the recommendation to reduce the total core damage frequency (CDF) of Wolsong nuclear Power Plant nits 2/3/4 was Performed in this paper. In order to derive the recommendation, the sensitivity analysis of CDF on which major contributors effect m performed based on the accident quantification results during Level 1 Probabilistic safety assessment (PSA). Priorities were ranked in tile way that compares the CDF reduction rate with efforts required to implement those recommendations using risk matrix

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Environmental Impact Evaluation for the Power Generation System Using the LCA Methodology (LCA 기법을 이용한 발전시스템의 환경성 평가)

  • Ko, Kwang-Hoon;Hwang, Yong-Woo;Park, Kwang-Ho;Jo, Hyun-Jung;Jae, Moo-Sung
    • Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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    • v.27 no.7
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    • pp.704-711
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    • 2005
  • In this study, life cycle assessment(LCA) for the nuclear power generation system and the thermal power generation system, which make a great distribution of the electric power supply in Korea, has been carried out to compare the environmental impact between two power generation systems. In system boundary of this study, the stage of construction, operation and demolition & disposal were included. For life cycle impact assessment(LCIA), three cases were considered; the single environmental impact for the $CO_2$ emissions, the 8 major global environmental impact, and the major global environmental impact categories including radioactive impact. As the results, it was found that the nuclear power generation system is environmentally superior to the thermal power generation system as 10,000 times in the evaluation for the $CO_2$ emissions, 90 times in the evaluation for the 8 major environmental impact categories, and 40 times in the evaluation for the environmental impact categories including radioactive impact.

Small Nuclear Units and Distributed Resource interconnection(2) (Small Nuclear Units에 의한 분산전원 및 계통연계(2))

  • Lee, Sang-Seung
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2005.07a
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    • pp.420-422
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    • 2005
  • This paper introduces a new paradigm for energy supply system in near future which produces electric and district heat cogeneration with dispersed power grid with small nuclear power units. Recently, in nuclear field, a lot of effort has been done in nuclear major countries to develop small and medium reactor for enhancement of nuclear peaceful use as like in district heating, electric power generation, seawater desalination or hydrogen generation.

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Development of multigroup cross section library generation system TPAMS

  • Lili Wen;Haicheng Wu;Ying Chen;Xiaoming Chai;Xiaofei Wu;Xiaolan Tu;Yuan Liu
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.56 no.6
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    • pp.2208-2219
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    • 2024
  • Kylin-2 is an advanced neutronics lattice code, developed by Nuclear Power Institute of China. High-precision multigroup cross section library is need for KYLIN-2 to carry out simulation of current pressurized water reactor (PWR) and advanced reactor. In this paper a multigroup cross section library generation system named TPAMS was developed, the methods in TPAMS dealing with resonance data such as subgroup parameters, lambda factor, resonance integral were discussed. Moreover, the depletion chain simplification method was studied. TPAMS can produce multigroup library in binary and ASIIC formats, including detailed data contents for resonance, transport and depletion calculations. A multigroup cross section library has been generated for KYLIN-2 based on TPAMS system. The multigroup cross section library was verified through the analysis of various criticality and burnup benchmarks, the values of multiplication factor and isotope density were compared with the experiment data. Numerical results demonstrate the accuracy of the multigroup cross section library and the reliability of the multigroup cross section library generation system TPAMS.