• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제52권12호
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• pp.2958-2968
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• 2020

Understanding public perception on nuclear research reactor is necessary for the policy maker to adopt such technology in Thailand, especially the locals who live in the proposed location. The study compared perceptions between the locals living near the proposed nuclear research reactor location (within 5 km) and those living in the outer region (5-15 km). Structural equation modeling technique was adopted by assuming casual relationships between latent variables including social status, information perception, trust, benefit perception and risk perception on the local acceptance of research reactor. The results showed that the strongest relationships for both the inner and the outer perimeters were from information perception toward technology acceptance via trust and benefit perception. While both zones showed similar results, the outer perimeter seemed to show slightly stronger effects than those in the inner perimeter.

• 경영과학
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.139-148
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• 2013

A nuclear energy has been one of the most important sources to securely supply electricity in South Korea. Its weight in the national electricity supply has kept increasing since the first nuclear reactor was built in 1978. The country relies on the nuclear approximately 31.4% in 2012 and it is expected to increase to 48.5% in 2024 based on the long-term electricity supply plan announced by the Korean government. However, Fukushima disaster due to 9.0 magnitude earthquake followed by the tsunami has raised deep concerns on the security of the nuclear power plants. The policy makers of the country are much interested in analyzing the cost structure of the power supply in the case that the nuclear is diminished from the current supply portion. This research uses a stochastic model that aims to evaluate the long-term power supply plan and provides an extensive cost analysis on the changes of the nuclear power supply. To evaluate a power supply plan, the research develops a few plausible energy mix scenarios by changing the installed capacities of energy sources from the long-term electricity supply plan. The analyses show that the nuclear is still the most attractive energy source since its fuel cost is very much stable compared to the other sources. Also the results demonstrate that a large amount of financial expenditure is additionally required every year if Koreans agree on the reduction of nuclear to increase national security against a nuclear disaster.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제52권12호
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• pp.2969-2974
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• 2020

Looking at the recent studies, nuclear energy and carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions nexus shows inconclusive result. To further explain nuclear energy-pollution nexuses this study is an attempt to analyze the impact of nuclear energy on pollution reduction for BRICS countries covering data for the period from 1993 to 2017. This study conducts advanced panel techniques such as Continuously-Updated Fully-Modified (CUP-FM) and Continuously-Updated Bias-Corrected (CUP-BC) for long run estimation. Our results support the notion that nuclear energy reduce CO₂ emissions. Also, renewable energy corrects environmental pollution in BRICS countries. The magnitude of the coefficient of nuclear energy is less as compared to renewable energy, implying that nuclear is less effective in reducing environmental pollution. The findings offer significant policy understandings and suggestions not only for BRICS economies but for developing countries as well in designing suitable nuclear energy-growth-carbon policies.

• 항공우주정책ㆍ법학회지
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.219-246
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• 2017

핵문제는 국제레짐(resime)의 지구화를 보여주는 좋은 예이다. 1945년 8월 일본에 최초로 핵폭탄이 투하되면서 핵무기가 인류를 절멸시킬 수 있다는 역사를 통해 평화에 대한 갈망은 더욱 절실해졌다. 자국의 안보를 위한 군비증강은 국제사회에서 자존의 문제이지만, UN헌장의 목적이기도 한 국제평화와 안전을 유지하기 위해 군축 또는 군비통제는 전 인류의 평화 실현과 직결된 가장 중요한 과제일 것이다. 오늘날 군축은 국제분쟁의 평화적 해결, 집단안전보장제도와 함께 국제평화와 안전을 유지 촉진하는 중요한 수단이다. 완전한 군축 실현이 항구적인 인류의 과제일 수는 있으나, NPT 서문에서 일반적이고 완전한 군축이 표현된 것처럼 국제사회는 완전 군축을 위한 노력을 천명하고 있다. 따라서 핵문제에 대한 국제레짐과 북한의 핵문제에 대한 주요 경과를 살펴봄으로써 핵문제의 지구화 현상을 소개하고, 핵 군축을 위한 국제사회의 노력을'인류의 공동유산'개념과 우주공간 평화이용위원회 및 핵무기의 통제를 중심으로 검토한 후, 대한민국과 국제법에 직결된 사안인 북한의 핵문제를 우주법 내지 군축법적인 관점에서 평가해 보고자 한다. 또한 북한의 핵문제를 위해서는 비확산 반확산정책과 함께 집단안전보장제도가 지속적으로 강조 시도되어야 할 것이다.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제48권4호
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• pp.175-183
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• 2023

Background: Recently, biological adsorbents have been developed for removing radionuclides from radioactive liquid waste due to their high selectivity, eco-friendliness, and renewability. However, since they can be damaged by radiation in radioactive waste, a method for estimating the bio-adsorbent performance as a time should consider the radiation damages in terms of their renewability. This paper aims to develop a simulation method that applies a deep learning technique to rapidly and accurately estimate the adsorption performance of bio-adsorbents when inserted into liquid radioactive waste. Materials and Methods: A model that describes various interactions between a bio-adsorbent and liquid has been constructed using numerical methods to estimate the adsorption capacity of the bio-adsorbent. To generate datasets for machine learning, Monte Carlo N-Particle (MCNP) simulations were conducted while considering radioactive concentrations in the adsorbent column. Results and Discussion: Compared with the result of the conventional method, the proposed method indicates that the accuracy is in good agreement, within 0.99% and 0.06% for the R² score and mean absolute percentage error, respectively. Furthermore, the estimation speed is improved by over 30 times. Conclusion: Note that an artificial neural network can rapidly and accurately estimate the survival rate of a bio-adsorbent from radiation ionization compared with the MCNP simulation and can determine if the bio-adsorbents are reusable.

• 한국시스템다이내믹스연구
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• 제7권2호
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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.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제51권7호
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• pp.1791-1798
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• 2019

Instrumentation and Control (I&C) systems of nuclear power plants (NPPs) have been continuously digitalized. These systems have a critical role in the operation of nuclear facilities by functioning as the brain of NPPs. In recent years, as cyber security threats to NPP systems have increased, regulatory and policy-related organizations around the world, including the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and Korea Institute of Nuclear Nonproliferation and Control (KINAC), have emphasized the importance of nuclear cyber security by publishing cyber security guidelines and recommending cyber security requirements for NPP facilities. As described in NRC Regulatory Guide (Reg) 5.71 and KINAC RS015, challenge response authentication should be applied to the critical digital I&C system of NPPs to satisfy the cyber security requirements. There have been no cases in which the most robust response authentication technology like challenge response has been developed and applied to nuclear I&C systems. This paper presents a challenge response authentication mechanism for a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) system used as a control system in the safety system of the Advanced Power Reactor (APR) 1400 NPP.

• 방사성폐기물학회지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.65-98
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• 2022

The nuclear legacy that remains in the United Kingdom (UK) is complex and diverse. Consisting of legacy ponds and silos, redundant reprocessing plants, research facilities, and non-standard or one-off reactor designs, the clean-up of this legacy is under the stewardship of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA). Through a mix of prompt and delayed decommissioning strategies, the NDA has made great strides in dealing with the UK's nuclear legacy. Fuel debris and sludge removal from the legacy ponds and silos situated at Sellafield, as part of a prompt decommissioning strategy for the site, has enabled intolerable risks to be brought under control. Reactor defueling and waste retrievals across the Magnox fleet is enabling their transition to a period of care and maintenance; accelerated through the adopted 'Lead and Learn' approach. Bespoke decommissioning methods implemented by the NDA have also enabled the relevant site licence companies to tackle non-standard reactor designs and one-off wastes. Such approaches have potential to influence and shape nuclear decommissioning decision making activities globally, including in Korea.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권9호
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• pp.3299-3309
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• 2022

Nuclear energy has the potential to play an influential role in energy transition efforts than is now anticipated by many countries. Realizing sustainable human development and reducing global climate crises will become more difficult without significantly increasing nuclear power. This paper aims to probe the role of nuclear energy, external debt, and financial globalization in sustaining human development and environmental conditions simultaneously in BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) countries. This study applied a battery of second-generation estimation approaches over the period from 1990 to 2019. These methods are useful and robust to cross-countries dependencies, slope heterogeneity, parameters endogeneity, and serial correlation that are ignored in conventional approaches to generate more comprehensive and reliable estimates. The empirical findings indicate that nuclear energy and financial globalization contribute to human development, whereas external debt inhibits it. Similarly, financial globalization accelerates ecological deterioration, but nuclear energy and external debt promote environmental sustainability. Moreover, the study reveals bidirectional feedback causalities between human development, carbon emissions and nuclear energy consumption. The study offers useful policy guidance on accomplishing sustainable and inclusive development in BRICS countries.

• 방사성폐기물학회지
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.285-299
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• 2006

2005년말 현재, 전세계 32개국에서 443기의 원자력발전소가 운영되고 있다. 현재 전체발전량은 약 3,000 TWh이며 전세계 전력공급의 약 16 퍼센트를 차지하고 있다. 2004년말 사용후핵 연료는 전세계 원전의 발전용량 368 GWe에서 매년 11,000 tHM 정도 발생되고 있으며 현재 운영중인 대부분의 원전이 가동정지가 예상되는 2020년에는 445,000 tHM까지 예상되고 있다. 이러한 관점에서, 사용후핵 연료 관리는 전체 IAEA 회원국에게는 그들이 취하고 있는 후행핵 연료주기 정책과 전략에 관계없이 국제협력 등을 통해 가까운 장래에 시급히 그리고 반드시 해결해야 할 필수 사안임이 분명하다. 지난 2006년 5월 15일부터 2주간 제2차 방사성폐기물안전협약 체약국회의가 오스트리아 IAEA본부에서 개최되었다. 동 회의에서 사용후 핵연료에 대한 국가 정책 및 전략, 그리고 그들의 현황, 향후 전망, 정책에 일차적으로 고려한 인자와 이행내용 등이 심층논의되었으며, 향후 개별 국가의 노력 및 국제협력의 방향 등이 확인되었다. 본 논문에서는 상기협약에서 논의된 사용후핵 연료 관리에 대한 국가정책 및 향후 추세 둥을 자세히 기술하였다. 또한 주요국가의 최근 이행내용도 요약정리 하였다.