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CURRENT STATUS OF NUCLEAR FUSION ENERGY RESEARCH IN KOREA

  • Kwon, My-Eun;Bae, Young-Soon;Cho, Seung-Yon;Choe, Won-Ho;Hong, Bong-Geun;Hwang, Yong-Seok;Kim, Jin-Yong;Kim, Kee-Man;Kim, Yaung-Soo;Kwak, Jong-Gu;Lee, Hyeon-Gon;Lee, San-Gil;Na, Yong-Su;Oh, Byung-Hoon;Oh, Yeong-Kook;Park, Ji-Yeon;Yang, Hyung-Lyeol;Yu, In-Keun
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.41 no.4
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    • pp.455-476
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    • 2009

  • The history of nuclear fusion research in Korea is rather short compared to that of advanced countries. However, since the mid-1990s, at which time the construction of KSTAR was about to commence, fusion research in Korea has been actively carried out in a wide range of areas, from basic plasma physics to fusion reactor design. The flourishing of fusion research partly owes to the fact that industrial technologies in Korea including those related to the nuclear field have been fully matured, with their quality being highly ranked in the world. Successive pivotal programs such as KSTAR and ITER have provided diverse opportunities to address new scientific and technological problems in fusion as well as to draw young researchers into related fields. The frame of the Korean nuclear fusion program is now changing from a small laboratory scale to a large national agenda. Coordinated strategies from different views and a holistic approach are necessary in order to achieve optimal efficiency and effectiveness. Upon this background, the present paper reflects upon the road taken to arrive at this point and looks ahead at the coming future in nuclear fusion research activities in Korea.

  • https://doi.org/10.5516/NET.2009.41.4.455 인용 PDF KSCI

Cooling Water Utility of Future Clean Energy Source KSTAR (미래 청정에너지원 KSTAR의 냉각수설비)

  • Lee, J.M.;Kim, Y.J.;Park, D.S.;Lim, D.S.
    • Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.596-601
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    • 2006

  • Because of insufficiency of energy resources and pollution of environment, it is necessary to develop alternative energy sources. Nuclear fission energy is used widely for source of electric Power but being restricted due to radioactivity problem. Nuclear fission is highlighted as the new generation of nuclear energy and researched worldwide because of low risk of radiation effect. The representatives of fusion research is China's EAST, KSTAR of Korea and ITER of world. Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research(KSTAR) project is on progress for the completion in August, 2007. In this study, the research of utility system for KSTAR be carried out. The utility system of KSTAR is consist of water cooling & heating system, $N_2$ gas system, DI water system, service water system and instrument air & auto control system. The progress of KSTAR utility system is under commissioning state after construction completion. The optimal operation scenario will be verified during commissioning and adopted to the KSTAR operation.

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New Nuclear Fusion for Our Second Generations

  • Ho-Jin Choi;Koan-Sik Joo
    • Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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    • 1999.11a
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    • pp.421-424
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    • 1999

  • In this short report (before the authors would like to introduce an important application for one of the techniques of complex angular momentunm, say, Regge Pole approach, to nuclear fusion reaction for Light-ions: it will be reported in forthcoming papers), two kinds of thermalnuclear fusion reaction sources are introduced and discussed (A) the case of fusion: the production of neutron and target of Deuteron and (B) the case of fusion: the production of proton and target of Deuteron. Nuclear fusion reactions for Light-ions , such as the thermalnuclear energy sources and fuel cycles, are already well known. Fusion reactions are widely known as being extremly important and nationally vital (in point of view of nuclear weapons we must reconsider seriously development and building of such dangerous weapons) for our next generations in the future. This paper (a topics in review) is concerned with a simple introduction about a new nuclear fusion reaction of the above case of (B) for the second generation. Typical thermalnuclear fusion reactions which result in the release of huge amount of energy are nuclear stripping reactions:

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