• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제45권6호
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• pp.721-730
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• 2013

Within the framework of the ASTRID project, core design studies are being conducted by the CEA with support from AREVA and EDF. The pre-conceptual design studies are being conducted in accordance with the GEN IV reactor objectives, particularly in terms of improving safety. This involves limiting the consequences of 1) a hypothetical control rod withdrawal accident (by minimizing the core reactivity loss during the irradiation cycle), and 2) an hypothetical loss-of-flow accident (by reducing the sodium void worth). Two types of cores are being studied for the ASTRID project. The first is based on a 'large pin/small spacing wire' concept derived from the SFR V2b, while the other is based on an innovative CFV design. A distinctive feature of the CFV core is its negative sodium void worth. In 2011, the evaluation of a preliminary version (v1) of this CFV core for ASTRID underlined its potential capacity to improve the prevention of severe accidents. An improved version of the ASTRID CFV core (v2) was proposed in 2012 to comply with all the control rod withdrawal criteria, while increasing safety margins for all unprotected-loss-of-flow (ULOF) transients and improving the general design. This paper describes the CFV v2 design options and reports on the progress of the studies at the end of pre-conceptual design phase 1 concerning: - Core performance, - Intrinsic behavior during unprotected transients, - Simulation of severe accident scenarios, - Qualification requirements. The paper also specifies the open options for the materials, sub-assemblies, absorbers, and core monitoring that will continue to be studied during the conceptual design phase.

• 시스템엔지니어링워크숍
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• 통권6호
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• pp.81-85
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• 2005

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회A
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• pp.296-299
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• 2007

KAERI is in the process of carrying out the Nuclear Hydrogen Development and Demonstration (NHDD) Program. The indirect cycle gas cooled reactors that produce heat at temperatures in the order of $950^{\circ}C$ are being considered in the NHDD program. For the indirect gas cooled reactors, the intermediate hear exchanger (IHX) and hot gas duct (HGD) are the main components. For the NHDD program we are in the process of establishing a conceptual design of the IHX and HGD. The pre-conceptual design activities in this study dealt with a preliminary design of the IHX and the HGD including strength and thermal expansion evaluation of the main components.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2004

수직이착륙과 고속수평비행이 기능한 스마트 무인기 개발의 일환으로 초기개념설계용 성능예측 프로그램을 작성하였다. 스마트 무인기가 요구하는 설계조건을 기반으로 각 임무 단계 수행과정에서의 연료소모중량을 반복계산하여 전체 중량을 예측하고, 동시에 무인기의 주요형상변수, 추진성능, 수직이착륙성능, 수평비행성능 등의 계산을 통해 성능예측 및 설계요구조건 만족여부 판단, 경향성 분석을 수행할 수 있다. 동 프로그램은 수직이착륙 무인항공기 비행체의 초기개념설계단계에서 비행체의 경향성 분석, 비행성능 예측 및 설계 요구조건 검증 등을 손쉽고 간편하게 수행 할 수 있는 도구도서 사용할 수 있다.

• 공학교육연구
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.90-101
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• 2008

이 연구는 STEM 통합 접근의 사전 공학 교육 프로그램 모형을 개발하기 위해 수행되었다. 연구의 목적을 달성하기 위해서 관련 문헌 고찰과 전문가를 대상으로 한 타당도 조사를 실시하였다. 이 연구에서는 STEM 통합 접근의 교육 프로그램 모형 개발과 관련하여 다음과 같은 세 가지 결과를 산출하였다. 첫째, 과학, 기술학, 공학, 수학 각각에 대한 개념, 고유의 탐구 방법과 지식 구조 및 영역을 확인하고, 이에 대한 타당도 조사를 통해 STEM 통합 접근의 개념 모형을 구성하였다. 둘째, STEM 통합 접근의 통합 핵심 요소, 활동유형, 교육 프로그램 수행 학습 인원, 교육 프로그램 수준을 탐색하고 이를 바탕으로 하여 STEM 통합 접근의 교육 프로그램 개념 모형을 구안하였다. 셋째, 주제 중심 통합 접근에 따른 탐구 프로젝트 활동, 문제 중심 통합 접근에 따른 문제 해결 활동, 설계 중심 통합 접근에 따른 창의 공학 설계 활동 각각의 교육 프로그램 구성 단계를 제시하여 STEM 통합 접근의 교육 프로그램 구조화를 꾀하였다.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.227-242
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• 2012

This research explores the scientific reasoning of pre-service elementary teachers in experimental design. The article focuses on pre-service teachers' responses to the questions in the worksheets which involve making their knowledge claims on extinguishing of a burning candle in a closed container, evaluating anomalous data, and designing experiment to test their ideas. Their responses are interpreted in terms of categories developed by Tytler and Peterson(2003, 2004). The interrelationship between conceptual knowledge and scientific reasoning is explored using the data. It is argued that coordination of ideas and evidence must be emphasized in the scientific investigations rather than fair test.

• 한국원자력학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국원자력학회 2004년도 추계학술발표회 발표논문집
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• pp.107-108
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• 2004

• 한국방사성폐기물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방사성폐기물학회 2009년도 학술논문요약집
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• pp.51-52
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• 2009

Recently, several industrial countries using the fission energy have given attention to the Gen-IV SFR (sodium-cooled fast reactor) for achieving sustainable nuclear energy systems. In this context, an SFR is currently developed at the design concepts study stage in the Republic of Korea [Kim & Hahn 200909]. The sustainability of systems means economic, environment-friendly, proliferation-resistant, and safer systems. More specifically, this sustainability can be accomplished in terms of resource recycling and radioactive waste reduction. In the present work, the objective of fuel cycle cost modeling is to identify the impact of various conceptual options as a cost reduction measure for the Gen-IV SFR at the design concepts study stage. It facilitates the selection of several reasonable fuel cycle pathways for the future Gen-IV SFR from an economic viewpoint.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제39권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2007

Hydrogen and electricity are expected to dominate the world energy system in the long term. The world currently consumes about 50 million metric tons of hydrogen per year, with the bulk of it being consumed by the chemical and refining industries. The demand for hydrogen is expected to increase, especially if the U.S. and other countries shift their energy usage towards a hydrogen economy, with hydrogen consumed as an energy commodity by the transportation, residential and commercial sectors. However, there is strong motivation to not use fossil fuels in the future as a feedstock for hydrogen production, because the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide is a byproduct and fossil fuel prices are expected to increase significantly. An advanced reactor technology receiving considerable international interest for both electricity and hydrogen production, is the modular helium reactor (MHR), which is a passively safe concept that has evolved from earlier high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) designs. For hydrogen production, this concept is referred to as the H2-MHR. Two different hydrogen production technologies are being investigated for the H2-MHR; an advanced sulfur-iodine (SI) thermochemical water splitting process and high-temperature electrolysis (HTE). This paper describes pre-conceptual design descriptions and economic evaluations of full-scale, nth-of-a-kind SI-Based and HTE-Based H2-MHR plants. Hydrogen production costs for both types of plants are estimated to be approximately $2 per kilogram.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제21권9호
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• pp.85-94
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• 2004

As over 70% of the total life cycle cost (LCC) of a product is committed at the early design stage, designers are in an important position to substantially reduce the LCC of the products they design by giving due to life cycle implications of their design decisions. During early design stages, there may be competing concepts with dramatic differences. In addition, the detailed information is scarce and decisions must be made quickly. Thus, both the overhead in developing parametric LCC models fur a wide range of concepts, and the lack of detailed information make the application of traditional LCC models impractical. A different approach is needed, because a traditional LCC method is to be incorporated in the very early design stages. This paper explores an approximate method for providing the preliminary LCC, Learning algorithms trained to use the known characteristics of existing products might allow the LCC of new products to be approximated quickly during the conceptual design phase without the overhead of defining new LCC models. Artificial neural networks are trained to generalize product attributes and LCC data from pre-existing LCC studies. Then the product designers query the trained artificial model with new high-level product attribute data to quickly obtain an LCC for a new product concept. Foundations fur the learning LCC approach are established, and then an application is provided.