• 제목/요약/키워드: Radiation Damage

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IMPACT ANALYSES AND TESTS OF CONCRETE OVERPACKS OF SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL STORAGE CASKS

  • Lee, Sanghoon;Cho, Sang-Soon;Jeon, Je-Eon;Kim, Ki-Young;Seo, Ki-Seog
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제46권1호
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    • pp.73-80
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    • 2014
  • A concrete cask is an option for spent nuclear fuel interim storage. A concrete cask usually consists of a metallic canister which confines the spent nuclear fuel assemblies and a concrete overpack. When the overpack undergoes a missile impact, which might be caused by a tornado or an aircraft crash, it should sustain an acceptable level of structural integrity so that its radiation shielding capability and the retrievability of the canister are maintained. A missile impact against a concrete overpack produces two damage modes, local damage and global damage. In conventional approaches [1], those two damage modes are decoupled and evaluated separately. The local damage of concrete is usually evaluated by empirical formulas, while the global damage is evaluated by finite element analysis. However, this decoupled approach may lead to a very conservative estimation of both damages. In this research, finite element analysis with material failure models and element erosion is applied to the evaluation of local and global damage of concrete overpacks under high speed missile impacts. Two types of concrete overpacks with different configurations are considered. The numerical simulation results are compared with test results, and it is shown that the finite element analysis predicts both local and global damage qualitatively well, but the quantitative accuracy of the results are highly dependent on the fine-tuning of material and failure parameters.

동위원소 치료 관련 방사선 흡수선량평가 (Radiation Dosimetry for Radionuclide Therapy)

  • 김은희
    • 대한핵의학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한핵의학회 2001년도 제40차 춘계학술대회 및 연수교육
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    • pp.4-10
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    • 2001
  • The radionuclide therapy is a protocol for tumor control by administering radionuclides as the cytotoxic agents. Radionuclides concentrated at the site of cancerous lesion are expected to kill the cancerous cells with minimal injury to the normal tissue. The efficacy of every radionuclide treatment can be evaluated by examining the toxicity to the lesion differentiated from that to the normal tissue. Radiation dosimetry is the procedure of quantitating the energy absorbed by target volumes of interest. Dosimetric information plays an indicator of the expected radiation damage and thus the therapeutic efficacy. This paper summarizes the dosimetric aspects in radionuclide therapy in terms of radionuclides of use, radiation dosimetry methodology and considerations for each treatment in practical use.

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적외선 복사에너지에 의한 시료의 물리적 손상 측정 (Measurement of Physical Demage of Samples by Infrared Radiation)

  • 정동선;김기훈;한종성;김훈
    • 한국조명전기설비학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국조명전기설비학회 2004년도 학술대회 논문집
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    • pp.131-135
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    • 2004
  • The molecules of the substance absorbing a light obtains the radiant energy to the wavelength of the light to make thermal reactions or photochemical reactions. Specially, thermal reactions by infrared radiation brings about physical damage by temperature rise process or temperature drop process of the material. In this study, a measuring system was set up to measure the temperature rise and temperature drop of each sample by infrared radiation from light source. And a physical demage of samples by infrared radiation were measured using the measuring system.

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부정생진탕(扶正生津湯)이 방사선(放射線) 조사(照射) 부작용(副作用)에 미치는 영향(影響) (Study on Radioprotective Effects of Bujeongsaengjintang)

  • 김종대;조종관
    • 대한한방내과학회지
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    • 제19권2호
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    • pp.125-138
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    • 1998
  • To evaluate the radioprotective effects of Bujeongsaengjintang studies were done experimentally. The results were obtained as follows: 1. WBC, Platelet and RBC were significantly increased in Bujeongsaengjintang treated group as compared with control group after exposure to radiation by Liniac. 2. By FACS analysis of splenic leukocyte after exposure to radiation by Liniac, T cell, T-helper cell and macrophase were significantly increased in Bujeongsaengjintang treated group. 3. In histological changes of ileum and jejunum of Balb/C mice after exposure to radiation by Liniac, exclusion and fusion of villi were decreased in Bujeongsaengjintang treated group as compared with control group. From above results, it is suggested that Bujeongsaengjintang is available to a clinic for the protection from damage by radiotherapy to cancer.

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PROTECTION OF DNA BY SCUTELLARlA BAICALENSIS IN HL-60 CELLS EXPOSED TO $\gamma$-RAYS; ANALYSED BY MICRONUCLEI FORMATION AND SINGLE CELL GELL ELECTROPHORESIS

  • Heon Oh;Park, Hae-Ran;Ham, Yeon-Ho;Kim, Sung-Ho;Jo, Sung-Kee
    • 한국독성학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국독성학회 2001년도 International Symposium on Dietary and Medicinal Antimutgens and Anticarcinogens
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    • pp.107-107
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    • 2001
  • In the present study, the protective effect of Scutellaria baicalensis against DNA damage in HL-60 cells exposed to $^{60}$ Co ${\gamma}$-rays was evaluated using micronuclei formation and alkaline single cell gel electrophoresis (SCGE, comet assay). The frequency of micronuclei was decreased in groups treated with water extract (P<0.01), polysaccaride fraction (P<0.01) and methanol fraction (P<0.01) before/after exposure to 200 cGy of ${\gamma}$-rays.(omitted)

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Design, construction, and characterization of a Prompt Gamma Neutron Activation Analysis (PGNAA) system at Isfahan MNSR

  • M.H. Choopan Dastjerdi;J. Mokhtari;M. Toghyani
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제55권12호
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    • pp.4329-4334
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    • 2023
  • In this research, a prompt gamma neutron activation analysis (PGNAA) system is designed and constructed based on the use of a low power research reactor. For this purpose, despite the fact that this reactor did not include beam tubes, a thermal neutron beam line is installed inside the reactor tank. The extraction of the beam line from inside the tank made it possible to provide the neutron flux from the order of 106 n.cm-2.s-1. Also, because the beam line is installed in a tangential position to the reactor core, its gamma level has been minimized. Also, a suitable radiation shield is considered for the detector to minimize the background radiation and prevent radiation damage to the detector. Calculations and measurements are done in order to characterize this system, as well as spectrometry of several samples. The results of evaluations and experiments show that this system is suitable for performing PGNAA.

Impact of Gamma Irradiation Effects on IGBT and Design Parameter Considerations

  • Lho, Young-Hwan
    • ETRI Journal
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    • 제31권5호
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    • pp.604-606
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    • 2009
  • The primary dose effects on an insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) irradiated with a $^{60}Co$ gamma-ray source are found in both of the components of the threshold shifting due to oxide charge trapping in the MOS and the reduction of current gain in the bipolar transistor. In this letter, the IGBT macro-model incorporating irradiation is implemented, and the electrical characteristics are analyzed by SPICE simulation and experiments. In addition, the collector current characteristics as a function of gate emitter voltage, VGE, are compared with the model considering the radiation damage of different doses under positive biases.

방사선 오염분포 영상화를 위한 방사선 센서의 탐지 범위 개선에 관한 연구 (Detection Range Improvement of Radiation Sensor for Radiation Contamination Distribution Imaging)

  • 송근영;황영관;이남호;나준희
    • 한국정보통신학회논문지
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    • 제23권12호
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    • pp.1535-1541
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    • 2019
  • 방사선 사고 지역 및 제염이 필요한 지역에서의 안전하고 신속한 제염작업을 진행하기 위해서는 방사선 오염원에 대한 다양한 정보 획득이 필요하다. 특히 방사선원의 정확한 위치와 분포 정보의 파악은 신속한 후속 조치 및 오염원 제거를 위해 반드시 필요하며, 작업자의 방사선 피폭을 최소화할 수 있다. 방사선원의 위치와 분포 정보를 획득하기 위해서는 방사선 분포 탐지 장치를 사용한다. 방사선 분포 탐지 장치의 경우 일반적으로 탐지 센서 부가 단일 센서로 구성되며, 단일 센서의 물리적 한계로 인해 탐지 범위가 제한되는 문제점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 방사선 오염 분포 영상화 장치에 사용되는 단일 센서의 탐지 감도 제어를 위하여 보정 검출기를 적용하였으며, 이를 통해 제한적이었던 선량률 탐지 범위를 향상하였다. 또한 감마선 조사 시험을 통해 방사선 분포 탐지 범위의 개선을 확인하였다.