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Development of the remote controlled robotic system in nuclear facilities (원자력시설내의 원격 제어 로보트 시스템 개발)

  • 황석용;손석원;김승호;이종민
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1989.10a
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    • pp.230-234
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    • 1989
  • This paper presents the design of a prototype robot and architecture of a distributed control system. The robot, named as KAEROT, has been developed for the purpose of the reduction of personal radiation exposure and the remote maintenance tasks in nuclear facilities. The mobile system with robotic manipulator has been designed to go up and down stairs. For the dextrous handling, this manipulator will be designed as a redundant type to act like a human arm. Manipulator control system is to be extended easily for further usage with a modular architecture to get independency and reliability by minimizing EMI effects.

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The study on a mobile robot for going up and down stairs in nuclear facilities (원전시설용 이동로보트의 계단승하강에 관한 연구)

  • 김병수;김창회;황석용;김승호;이종민
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1990.10a
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    • pp.731-735
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    • 1990
  • The mobile robot, named as KAEROT, is designed to go up and down stairs in nuclear facilities. To get a proper stable motion, kinematic modeling and analysis are seriously considered and new climbing algorithm is proposed focused on the stability. A couple of small wheels of one planetary wheel have to contact the surface ol stairs all the time to give the guarantee for stability and safety. To confirm the validity of the proposed algorithm, simulation is carried out. The results make evident of feasibility for the algorithm.

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Reviewing the Applications of Three Countries' Ground Water Flow Modeling Regulatory Guidelines to Nuclear Facilities in Korea

  • Lee, Chung-Mo;Hamm, Se-Yeong;Hyun, Seung Gyu;Cheong, Jae-Yeol;Wei, Ming Liang
    • Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2017
  • The numerical analysis of groundwater flow is indispensable for predicting problems associated with water resource development, civil works, environmental hazards, and nuclear power plant construction. Korea lacks public regulatory procedures and guidelines for groundwater flow modeling, especially in nuclear facility sites, which makes adequate evaluation difficult. Feasible step-by-step guidelines are also unavailable. Consequently, reports on groundwater flow modeling have low-grade quality and often present controversial opinions. Additionally, without public guidelines, maintaining consistency in reviewing reports and enforcing laws is more challenging. In this study, the guidelines for groundwater flow modeling were reviewed for three countries - the United States (Documenting Groundwater Modeling at Sites Contaminated with Radioactive Substances), Canada (Guidelines for Groundwater Modelling to Assess Impacts of Proposed Natural Resource Development Activities), and Australia (Australian Groundwater Modelling Guidelines), with the aim of developing groundwater flow modeling regulatory guidelines that can be applied to nuclear facilities in Korea, in accordance with the Groundwater Act, Environmental Impact Assessment Act, and the Nuclear Safety Act.

Analysing Current state of Identifying Critical digital assets And Cyber security control for Nuclear Facility (원자력발전소의 필수디지털 자산 식별 및 보안 조치 현황 분석)

  • Kim, Sangwoo;Shin, Ick-Hyun;Kwon, Kook Heui;Byun, Ye eun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2015.05a
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    • pp.264-266
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    • 2015
  • Currently as cyber threats grow up targeting nuclear power plants(NPP), licensees must guarantee that computer and information systems of nuclear facilities can be adequately protected against cyber attack. Especially critical system that cause illegal transfer of nuclear material and adverse impact to public safety need protecting. In this paper, we surveying the cyber threat examples targeted at NPP, and taxonomy the method of cyber security for NPPs in korea through analyzing the methodology to identify critical system and address cyber security controls for nuclear facilities.

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DISCRETE EVENT SYSTEM SIMULATION APPROACH FOR AN OPERATION ANALYSIS OF A HEADEND PROCESS FACILITY

  • Lee, Hyo-Jik;Kim, Sung-Hyun;Park, Byung-Suk
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.41 no.5
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    • pp.739-746
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    • 2009
  • This paper introduces facility operation modeling and simulation based primarily on a discrete event system modeling scheme. Many modern industrial facilities are so complex that their operational status cannot be estimated by simple calculations. In general, a facility can consist of many processes and transfers of material between processes that may be modeled as a discrete event system. This paper introduces the current status of studies on operation modeling and simulation for typical nuclear facilities, along with some examples. In addition, this paper provides insights about how a discrete event system can be applied to a model for a nuclear facility. A headend facility is chosen for operation modeling and the simulation, and detailed procedure is thoroughly described from modeling to an analysis of discrete event results. These kinds of modeling and simulation are very important because they can contribute to facility design and operation in terms of prediction of system behavior, quantification of facility capacity, bottleneck identification and efficient operation scheduling.

ISSUES IN PROBABILISTIC SEISMIC HAZARD ANALYSIS FOR NUCLEAR FACILITIES IN THE US

  • Mcguire, Robin K.
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.41 no.10
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    • pp.1235-1242
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    • 2009
  • Probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA) is routinely conducted in the US for nuclear plants, for the determination of appropriate seismic design levels. These analyses incorporate uncertainties in earthquake characteristics in stable continental regions (where direct observations of large earthquakes are rare), in estimates of rock motions, in site effects on strong shaking, and in the damage potential of seismic shaking for engineered facilities. Performance goals related to the inelastic deformation of individual components, and related to overall seismic core damage frequency, are used to determine design levels. PSHA has the ability to quantify and document the important uncertainties that affect seismic design levels, and future work can be guided toward reducing those uncertainties.