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Development of a Document-Oriented and Web-Based Nuclear Design Automation System (문서중심 및 웹기반 노심설계 자동화 시스템 개발)

  • Park Yong Soo;Kim Jong Kyung
    • Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.35-47
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    • 2004
  • The nuclear design analysis requires time-consuming and erroneous model-input preparation. code run. output analysis and quality assurance process. To reduce human effort and improve design quality and productivity. Innovative Design Processor (IDP) is being developed. Two basic principles of IDP are the document-oriented desigll and the web-based design. The document-oriented design is that. if the designer writes a design document called active document and feeds it to a special program. the final document with complete analysis. table and plots is made automatically. The active documents can be written with Microsoft Word or created automatically on the web. which is another framework of IDP. Using the proper mix-up of server side and client side programming under the LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) environment. it e design process on the web is modeled as a design wizard style so that even a novice designer makes the design document easily. This automation using the IDP is now being implemented for all the reload design of Korea Standard Nuclear Power Plant (KSNP) type PWRs. The introduction of this process will allow large reduction in all reload design efforts of KSNP and provide a platform for design and R&D tasks of KNFC.

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APPLICATIONS OF INTEGRATED SAFETY ANALYSIS METHODOLOGY TO RELOAD SAFETY EVALUATION

  • Jang, Chan-Su;Um, Kil-Sup
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.43 no.2
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    • pp.187-194
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    • 2011
  • Korea Nuclear Fuel is developing the X-GEN fuel which shows high performance and robust reliability for the worldwide supply. However, the simplified code systems such as CESEC-III which were developed in 1970s are still used in the current Non-LOCA safety analysis of OPR1000 and APR1400 plants. Therefore, it is essential to secure an advanced safety analysis methodology to make the best use of the merits of X-GEN fuel. To accomplish this purpose, the $\b{i}$ntegrated $\b{s}$afety $\b{a}$nalysis $\b{m}$ethodology (iSAM), is developed by selecting the best-estimate thermal-hydraulic code RETRAN. iSAM possesses remarkable advantages, such as generality, integrity, and designer-friendly features. That is, iSAM can be applied to both OPR1000 and APR1400 plants and uses only one computer code, RETRAN, in the whole scope of the non-LOCA safety analyses. Also the iSAM adopts the unique and automatic initialization and run tool, $\b{a}$utomatic $\b{s}$teady-$\b{s}$tate $\b{i}$nitialization and $\b{s}$afety analysis too l (ASSIST), to enable unhandy designers to use the new design code RETRAN without difficulty. In this paper, a brief overview of the iSAM is given, and the results of applying the iSAM to typical non-LOCA transients being checked during the reload design are reported. The typical non-LOCA transients selected are the single control element assembly withdrawal (SCEAW) accident, the asymmetric steam generator transients (ASGT), the locked rotor (LR) accident, and bank CEA withdrawal (BCEAW) event. Comparison to current licensing results shows a close resemblance; thus, it reveals that the iSAM can be applied to the non-LOCA safety analysis of OPR1000 and APR1400 plants.

A Study for the Improvement of Top End Piece Structural Strength (상단고정체의 구조강도 개선을 위한 연구)

  • Song, Kee-Nam;Sohn, Dong-Seong
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.186-192
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    • 1989
  • As a part of the design of the top end piece(TEP) for the 14$\times$14 reload fuel, various models of top end piece structure were analysed, using the ANSYS code, under fuel assembly shipping and handling load conditions. The 3-dimensional isoparametric elements were used in each model. By rearrangement of slots and holes on the adapter plate, without violating the design requirements, and also by changing the enclosure attachment method used on the adapter plate from pin joints to through-weld, the load carving capacity of the adapter plate was greatly strengthened. These concepts were adopted for the design of the 14$\times$14 reload fuel.

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Utilization of the Stand-by Fuel Assemblies (예비 핵연료의 이용)

  • Kim, Hark-Rho;Chung, Chang-Hyun
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.63-72
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    • 1981
  • The change in the design-basis refueling strategy caused by the unexpected nuclear fuel failures may result in discharging intact fuel assemblies which were irradiated in the positions symmetric to the failed ones in addition to the failed ones in order to maintain the symmetric power shape in the reactor core. In this work an attempt is made to reuse the intact fuel assemblies which were discharged before reaching the design turnup in the above-described situation so as to improve the fuel utilization. The TDCORE code is used to estimate the flux and power distribution, and the RELOAD-II code for searching the optimal loading pattern with the minimum assembly radial power peaking factor. For the case of the Ko-ri unit 1, its third cycle turnup could be extended to 11,648 MWD/MTU by reusing the four low-burned fuel assemblies removed at the end of the first cycle, and then the loading pattern is searched to the equilibrium cycle.

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Electromagnetism Mechanism for Enhancing the Refueling Cycle Length of a WWER-1000

  • Poursalehi, Navid;Nejati-Zadeh, Mostafa;Minuchehr, Abdolhamid
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.49 no.1
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    • pp.43-53
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    • 2017
  • Increasing the operation cycle length can be an important goal in the fuel reload design of a nuclear reactor core. In this research paper, a new optimization approach, electromagnetism mechanism (EM), is applied to the fuel arrangement design of the Bushehr WWER-1000 core. For this purpose, a neutronic solver has been developed for calculating the required parameters during the reload cycle of the reactor. In this package, two modules have been linked, including PARCS v2.7 and WIMS-5B codes, integrated in a solver for using in the fuel arrangement optimization operation. The first results of the prepared package, along with the cycle for the original pattern of Bushehr WWER-1000, are compared and verified according to the Final Safety Analysis Report and then the results of exploited EM linked with Purdue Advanced Reactor Core Simulator (PARCS) and Winfrith Improved Multigroup Scheme (WIMS) codes are reported for the loading pattern optimization. Totally, the numerical results of our loading pattern optimization indicate the power of the EM for this problem and also show the effective improvement of desired parameters for the gained semi-optimized core pattern in comparison to the designer scheme.

A Structure of Realtime IPTV Service using Peer-to-Peer Technology (P2P 기술 기반 실시간 IPTV 서비스 구현 구조)

  • Kim, Jae-Hyuk;Kim, Young-Han
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.35 no.3B
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    • pp.517-525
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    • 2010
  • The IPTV Service provides various interactive services beyond the level of being able to substitute cable TV. The IPTV system is to be decentralized gradually in which one server conducts all tasks. Primarily, deliberation of media needs to be changed into a system in which relayer and peer from the central server is utilized. Secondarily, the way of controling IPTV network need to be decentralized. Unlike the current client-server system, P2P(Peer To Peer), the main technology of decentralized IPTV is able to provide a service by cooperation of each node. Dealing with live streaming IPTV system which is based on the P2P protocol, this paper design the pure P2P IPTV structure and does verify the performance of P2P IPTV structure by realizing real system.

Machine Learning-Based Detection of Cache Side Channel Attack Using Performance Counter Monitor of CPU (Performance Counter Monitor를 이용한 머신 러닝 기반 캐시 부채널 공격 탐지)

  • Hwang, Jongbae;Bae, Daehyeon;Ha, Jaecheol
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.30 no.6
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    • pp.1237-1246
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    • 2020
  • Recently, several cache side channel attacks have been proposed to extract secret information by exploiting design flaws of the microarchitecture. The Flush+Reload attack, one of the cache side channel attack, can be applied to malicious application attacks due to its properties of high resolution and low noise. In this paper, we proposed a detection system, which detects the cache-based attacks using the PCM(Performance Counter Monitor) for monitoring CPU cache activity. Especially, we observed the variation of each counter value of PCM in case of two kinds of attacks, Spectre attack and secret recovering attack during AES encryption. As a result, we found that four hardware counters were sensitive to cache side channel attacks. Our detector based on machine learning including SVM(Support Vector Machine), RF(Random Forest) and MLP(Multi Level Perceptron) can detect the cache side channel attacks with high detection accuracy.

Feasibility of combinational burnable poison pins for 24-month cycle PWR reload core

  • Dandi, Aiman;Lee, MinJae;Kim, Myung Hyun
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.52 no.2
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    • pp.238-247
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    • 2020
  • The Burnable Poison (BP) is very important for all Light Water Reactors in order to hold-down the initial excess reactivity and to control power peaking. The use of BP is even more essential as the excess reactivity increases significantly with a longer operation cycle. In this paper a feasibility study was conducted in order to investigate the benefits of a new combinational BP concept designed for 24-month cycle PWR core. The reference designs in this study are based on the two Korean fuel assemblies; 17 × 17 Westinghouse (WH) design and 16 × 16 Combustion Engineering (CE) design. A modification was done on these two designs to extend their cycle length from 18 months into 24 months. DeCART2D-MASTER code system was used to perform assembly and core calculations for both designs. A preliminary test was conducted in order to choose the best BP suitable for 24-month as a representative for single BP concept. The comparison between the results of two concepts (combinational BP concept and single BP concept) showed that the combinational BP concept can replace the single BP concept with better performance on holding down the initial excess reactivity without violating the design limitations.

Development of a Simplified Statistical Methodology for Nuclear Fuel Rod Internal Pressure Calculation

  • Kim, Kyu-Tae;Kim, Oh-Hwan
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.257-266
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    • 1999
  • A simplified statistical methodology is developed in order to both reduce over-conservatism of deterministic methodologies employed for PWR fuel rod internal pressure (RIP) calculation and simplify the complicated calculation procedure of the widely used statistical methodology which employs the response surface method and Monte Carlo simulation. The simplified statistical methodology employs the system moment method with a deterministic approach in determining the maximum variance of RIP The maximum RIP variance is determined with the square sum of each maximum value of a mean RIP value times a RIP sensitivity factor for all input variables considered. This approach makes this simplified statistical methodology much more efficient in the routine reload core design analysis since it eliminates the numerous calculations required for the power history-dependent RIP variance determination. This simplified statistical methodology is shown to be more conservative in generating RIP distribution than the widely used statistical methodology. Comparison of the significances of each input variable to RIP indicates that fission gas release model is the most significant input variable.

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