• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.127-138
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• 2005

Approaches to several recent issues in the operation of nuclear power plants using computational intelligence are discussed. These issues include 1) noise analysis techniques, 2) on-line monitoring and sensor validation, 3) regularization of ill-posed surveillance and diagnostic measurements, 4) transient identification, 5) artificial intelligence-based core monitoring and diagnostic system, 6) continuous efficiency improvement of nuclear power plants, and 7) autonomous anticipatory control and intelligent-agents. Several changes to the focus of Computational Intelligence in Nuclear Engineering have occurred in the past few years. With earlier activities focusing on the development of condition monitoring and diagnostic techniques for current nuclear power plants, recent activities have focused on the implementation of those methods and the development of methods for next generation plants and space reactors. These advanced techniques are expected to become increasingly important as current generation nuclear power plants have their licenses extended to 60 years and next generation reactors are being designed to operate for extended fuel cycles (up to 25 years), with less operator oversight, and especially for nuclear plants operating in severe environments such as space or ice-bound locations.

• 한국원자력학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국원자력학회 1998년도 춘계학술발표회논문집(1)
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• pp.838-843
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• 1998

Risk importance measures are widely wed to rank risk contributors in risk-based applications. Typically, Fussell-Vesely (F-V) importance and risk achievement worth (RAW) are used in the component importance raking for the reliability centered maintenance (RCM) analysis of safety system in nuclear power plants (NPPs). This study was performed as part of feasibility study on RCM for domestic NPPs, which is focused on the component importance ranking approach the maintenance recommendation. The approach of modulizing faulting tree basic events was applied in the simplification process of the PSA model and the validity of the approach was evaluated As a result of the case study, this paper included the importance and the maintenance recommendations for the safety-related equipments associated with safety injection and containment spray in large loss of coolant accident sequences.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제49권5호
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• pp.1090-1094
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• 2017

The determinants of the public's nuclear power acceptance have received considerable attention as decisive factors regarding nuclear power policy. However, the contingency of the relative importance of different determinants has been less explored. Building on the literature of psychological distance between the individual and the object, the present study demonstrates that the relative effects of different types of perceived risks regarding nuclear power generation differ across acceptance targets. Using a sample of Korea, our results show that, regarding national acceptance of nuclear power generation, perceived risk from nuclear power plants exerts a stronger negative effect than that from radioactive waste management; however, the latter exerts a stronger negative effect than the former on local acceptance of a nuclear power plant. This finding provides implications for efficient public communication strategy to raise nuclear power acceptance.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제61권11호
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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.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.36-40
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• 2019

본 연구에서는 최근 4년간(2015년~2018년)의 하절기 기간(6월~8월)에 생산한 발전량 및 발전설비용량 데이터를 기반으로 천연가스, 석탄, 원자력, 신재생에너지 상호간의 가동률에 대해 비교 분석한 것이다. 기저발전을 담당하는 원자력 발전과 석탄 발전은 발전설비용량에 비해 실제로 생산한 발전량이 60% 정도로 높게 유지되었기 때문에 경제성을 확보한 것이다. 반면에 천연가스 발전과 신재생에너지 발전은 발전설비 투자 대비 실제 가동률이 29.5%와 27.3%로 대단히 낮아 발전원가를 낮추기 어려운 구조이다. 그러나 석탄 발전은 온실가스와 미세먼지 발생량 측면에서 구조적인 문제점을 갖고 있다. 반면에 천연가스 발전은 상대적으로 온실가스 발생량이 적고 안전해도 첨두발전 체계에 묶여 경제성을 확보하기 어려운 구조이다. 따라서 발전정책의 변화가 있어야 에너지원간의 균형발전이 가능할 것으로 예상된다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.18-31
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• 1989

대기오염의 제어가 발전 단가에 미치는 영향을 분석하기 위하여 전산 모델이 개발 되었다. POGEN은 석탄 화력 발전소에 대해 대기오염 제어 비용을 가산한 균등화 발전 단가를 계산한다. 부 프로그램 Pollution은 대기 오염 제어 비용을 가산한 지배 방정식을 사용하여 총 자본 비용과 변동비용을 계산한다. 이 비용은 균등화 발전 단가를 계산하는 부 프로그램 GENeration의 추가 입력으로 사용된다. 탈황설비의 직접 비용에 대한 Pollution을 이용한 결과는 경험이 풍부한 선진국에서 발간된 비용 자료로써 검증하였다. 2001년의 전력 생산비용은 석탄화력발전소에 적용된 세 가지의 규제 시나리오에 의해 추정되었다. 입력 변수의 중요도와 미래 발전소에 대한 입력 변수에 포함된 불확실성 때문에 생기는 불확실도의 전파를 검토하기 위해 Latin Hypercube Sampling과 Multiple Least Squares 방법을 사용하여 민감도 분석과 불확실도 분석을 수행하였다. 가장 민감한 입력 변수는 원자력, 화력 공히 할인률이다. 배출가스제어 비용으로서 9-11 mills/kWh 정도가 추가되어야 한다. 이 비용은 전력 생산비용의 거의 20 퍼센트가 되고, 이에 해당하는 투자비는 1GW 용량의 석탄 화력발전소 초기 투자비용의 40%가 될 것이다. 원자력 발전에 대한 단가는 90퍼센트의 신뢰도로써 32.6-65.9, 석탄 화력에 대해서는 45.5-60.5 mills/kWh가 되며, 엄격한 규제 분위기 하에서는 원자력이 95%의 신뢰도로써 유리할 것이 전망된다.

• 한국원자력학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국원자력학회 1998년도 춘계학술발표회논문집(1)
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• pp.887-892
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• 1998

A risk informed approach to relax AOTs and STIs of RPS/ESPAS in technical specifications of kori units 3, 4 was performed in this paper. With the proposed AOTs and STIs, system unavailabilities and core damage frequency were quantified using PSA model. The results shoe that core damage frequency is slightly increased by extending AOTs and STIs but negligible. As considering the benefits such as reduction of plant transients and man power for test and maintenance, the relaxation of AOTs/STIs of RPS/ESFAS is justified

• 신재생에너지
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.37-41
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• 2011

This paper presents a Combined solar-wave Power Generation (CPG) concept that the CPG unit is maintained as buoyant at the level of sea water and it is also supported by a submerged tunnel, with the aim of supplying emergency electric power during the station blackout events of nuclear power plants. The CPG concept has been motivated from the 2011 Fukushima-Daiichi Accidents due to the loss of both offsite AC power and emergency diesel power caused by natural hazards such as earthquake and tsunami. The CPG is conceptualized by applying different types and different sites for emergency power generation, in order to reduce common cause failures of emergency power suppliers due to natural hazards. Thus, the CPG can provide a new mean for supplying emergency electric power during station blackout events of nuclear power plants. For this application, the CPG requirements are described with a typical configuration at the ocean side of a submerged tunnel.

• 자원ㆍ환경경제연구
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.629-655
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• 2015

국내 발전량의 30% 이상을 차지하는 원자력발전은 기저부하의 안정성 확보 측면에서 전력산업에서 중요한 위치를 차지하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 원자력 발전과 도매전력가격의 관계를 분석하고자한다. 이를 위해 자기회귀시차분포 (ARDL: Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model) 모형과 Granger 인과성을 통해 원자력발전과 전력도매가격 (SMP: System Marginal Price)의 관계를 살펴보았다. 분석결과 단기적 효과는 다르게 나타날 수 있지만 총 효과 (장기효과)로 볼 때 원자력공급량과 SMP는 양(+)의 관계로 나타났다. 일반적인 장기균형식에서 원자력발전용량은 SMP와 양 (+)의 관계인 반면에 시차변수를 포함한 ARDL 모형의 경우 발전용량은 SMP와 음 (-)의 관계로 이론에 부합하는 것으로 나타났다. 인과성 검정결과 원자력발전 공급량은 SMP에 일방향의 Granger 인과성이 있으나 그 역의 관계는 성립하지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 시계열분석을 통하여 원자력발전은 SMP와 밀접한 연관성을 갖고 있음을 발견할 수 있었다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2005년도 제36회 하계학술대회 논문집 A
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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.