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Design Improvement on Reactor Shutdown System in Nuclear Power Plant (원자로 보호 계통 설계 개선)

  • 박철주;김석남;오연우
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.19 no.38
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    • pp.69-76
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    • 1996
  • The Special safety systems are incorporated into the plant design to limit radioactive releases to the public in the event of accident. Wolsung 2 is better builted than Wolsung 1 by 84 design changes for new approval requirements, codes & standards changes and manufacturing changes etc. This paper analysed and discussed the design change items for nuclear reactor safety system and needs development of design engineering for digital protection system.

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원자력 발전소 건물의 내진해석 모델

  • Heo, Young
    • Computational Structural Engineering
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.17-19
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    • 1991
  • 본 글에서는 ANS(American Nuclear Society)에서 규정하고 있는 Safety Class 구조물 중 격납건물의 내진해석모델에 대해 주로 언급하며, 기타 건물(Non-Nuclear Safety "NNS")은 일반건물과 차이점이 없음으로 언급하지 않는다. U.S. NRC(Nuclear Regulatory Commision)는 참고문헌[1]에 의해 원자력 발전소내 여러건물중 SSE(Safe Shutdown Earthquake)하중에도 견디도록 규정하여 정확한 동력학적 계산이 요구되어지나, 그 이외의 건물들은 대개 등가정적 방법에 의해 해석되어진다. 이 해석방법은 여러 빌딩규정들에서 제안된 것으로 지진에 의한 동적하중을 밑면적 단력 또는 각층에 작용하는 층전단력이라는 등가의 정적하중으로 바꿔 계산되며 이 때 사용되는 해석모델은 건물의 기본진동만을 표시할 수 있는 간단한 것이다.

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FMEA for CNS Facility and Cause Analysis of Shutdown Events to Improve Reactor Availability (원자로 이용률 향상을 위한 냉중성자원 시설의 고장모드영향분석 및 정지이력의 원인분석)

  • Lee, Yoon-Hwan;Hwang, Jeong Sik
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.35 no.5
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    • pp.115-120
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    • 2020
  • From 2009 when the CNS facility was installed, the number of reactor failures due to abnormal CNS facility system has increased significantly. Of the total of 19 nuclear reactor shutdowns over the six years from 2009 to 2019, there were 10 nuclear reactor shutdowns associated with the CNS facility, which are very numerous. Therefore, this report intends to analyze the history of nuclear reactor shutdowns due to CNS facility system failure in detail, and to present the root cause and solution to problems. As a result of FMEA implementation of CNS facility system, a total of 76 SPVs were selected. In addition, 10 cases of reactor shutdown history due to CNS facility system abnormalities were analyzed in detailed, and improvement plans for solving the root cause and problem were suggested for each trip history. The results of this study are expected to be able to operate the domestic research reactor and CNS facilities more stably by providing effective measures to prevent recurrence of CNS facilities and reactor trips.

ROLE OF PASSIVE SAFETY FEATURES IN PREVENTION AND MITIGATION OF SEVERE PLANT CONDITIONS IN INDIAN ADVANCED HEAVY WATER REACTOR

  • Jain, Vikas;Nayak, A.K.;Dhiman, M.;Kulkarni, P.P.;Vijayan, P.K.;Vaze, K.K.
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.45 no.5
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    • pp.625-636
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    • 2013
  • Pressing demands of economic competitiveness, the need for large-scale deployment, minimizing the need of human intervention, and experience from the past events and incidents at operating reactors have guided the evolution and innovations in reactor technologies. Indian innovative reactor 'AHWR' is a pressure-tube type natural circulation based boiling water reactor that is designed to meet such requirements, which essentially reflect the needs of next generation reactors. The reactor employs various passive features to prevent and mitigate accidental conditions, like a slightly negative void reactivity coefficient, passive poison injection to scram the reactor in event of failure of the wired shutdown systems, a large elevated pool of water as a heat sink inside the containment, passive decay heat removal based on natural circulation and passive valves, passive ECC injection, etc. It is designed to meet the fundamental safety requirements of safe shutdown, safe decay heat removal and confinement of activity with no impact in public domain, and hence, no need for emergency planning under all conceivable scenarios. This paper examines the role of the various passive safety systems in prevention and mitigation of severe plant conditions that may arise in event of multiple failures. For the purpose of demonstration of the effectiveness of its passive features, postulated scenarios on the lines of three major severe accidents in the history of nuclear power reactors are considered, namely; the Three Mile Island (TMI), Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents. Severe plant conditions along the lines of these scenarios are postulated to the extent conceivable in the reactor under consideration and analyzed using best estimate system thermal-hydraulics code RELAP5/Mod3.2. It is found that the various passive systems incorporated enable the reactor to tolerate the postulated accident conditions without causing severe plant conditions and core degradation.

Conceptual Safety Design Analyses of Korea Advanced Liquid Metal Reactor

  • Suk, S.D.;Park, C.K.
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.31 no.6
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    • pp.66-82
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    • 1999
  • The national long-term R&D program, updated in 1997, requires Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute(KAERI) to complete by the year 2006 the basic design of Korea Advanced Liquid Metal Reactor(KALIMER), along with supporting R&D work, with the capability of resolving the issue of spent fuel storage as well as with significantly enhanced safety. KALIMER is a 150 MWe pool-type sodium cooled prototype reactor that uses metallic fuel. The conceptual design is currently under way to establish a self-consistent design meeting a set of major safety design requirements for accident prevention. Some of the current emphasis includes those for inherent and passive means of negative reactivity insertion and decay heat removal, high shutdown reliability, prevention of and protection from sodium chemical reaction, and high seismic margin, among others. All of these requirements affect the reactor design significantly and involve extensive supporting R&D programs. This paper summarizes some of the results of conceptual engineering and design analyses performed for the safety of HAMMER in the area of inherent safety, passive decay heat removal, sodium water reaction, and seismic isolation.

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A Study on Battery Charger Reliability Improvement of Nuclear Power Plants DC Distribution System (원자력발전소 직류 전력계통의 충전기 신뢰도 향상방안 연구)

  • Lim, Hyuk-Soon;Kim, Doo-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.24-28
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    • 2010
  • The nuclear power Plant onsite AC electrical power sources are required to supply power to the engineering safety facility buses if the offsite power source is lost. Typically, Diesel Generators are used as the onsite power source. The 125 VAC buses are part of the onsite Class 1E AC and DC electrical power distribution system. The DC power distribution system ensure the availability of DC electrical power for system required to shutdown the reactor and maintain it in a safety condition after an anticipated operational occurrence or a postulated Design Base Accident. Recently, onsite DC power supply system trip occurs the loss of system function. To obtain the performance such as reliability and availability, we analyzed the cause of battery charger trip and described the improvement of DC power supply system reliability. Finally, we provide reliability performance criteria of charger in order to ensure the probabilistic goals for the safety of the nuclear power plants.

An Ontology-based Generation of Operating Procedures for Boiler Shutdown : Knowledge Representation and Application to Operator Training (온톨로지 기반의 보일러 셧다운 절차 생성 : 지식표현 및 훈련시나리오 활용)

  • Park, Myeongnam;Kim, Tae-Ok;Lee, Bongwoo;Shin, Dongil
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.47-61
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    • 2017
  • The preconditions of the usefulness of an operator safety training model in large plants are the versatility and accuracy of operational procedures, obtained by detailed analysis of the various types of risks associated with the operation, and the systematic representation of knowledge. In this study, we consider the artificial intelligence planning method for the generation of operation procedures; classify them into general actions, actions and technical terms of the operator; and take into account the sharing and reuse of knowledge, defining a knowledge expression ontology. In order to expand and extend the general operations of the operation, we apply a Hierarchical Task Network (HTN). Actual boiler plant case studies are classified according to operating conditions, states and operating objectives between the units, and general emergency shutdown procedures are created to confirm the applicability of the proposed method. These results based on systematic knowledge representation can be easily applied to general plant operation procedures and operator safety training scenarios and will be used for automatic generation of safety training scenarios.

Performance evaluation of safety-critical systems of nuclear power plant systems

  • Kumar, Pramod;Singh, Lalit Kumar;Kumar, Chiranjeev
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.52 no.3
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    • pp.560-567
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    • 2020
  • The complexity of safety critical systems of Nuclear Power Plant continues to increase rapidly due its transition from analog to digital systems. It has thus become progressively more imperative to model these systems prior to their implementation in order to meet the high performance, safety and reliability requirements. Timed Petri Nets (TPNs) have been widely used to model such systems for non-functional analysis. The paper presents a novel methodology for the analysis of the performance metrics using PN modeling. The paper uses the isomorphism property of the TPNs and the Markov chains for the performance analysis of the safety critical systems. The presented methodology has been validated on a Shutdown System of a Nuclear Power Plant.

Analysis of NWP GRIB Data for LEO Satellite Mission Planning (저궤도 관측위성 임무계획(Mission Planning)을 위한 기상수치예보 GRIB Data 분석)

  • Seo Jeong-Soo;Seo Seok-Bae;Bae Hee-Jin;Kim Eun-Kyou
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2006.03a
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    • pp.178-186
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    • 2006
  • 기상 수치예보는 (Numerical Weather Pridiction, NWP)는 바람, 기온, 등과 같은 기상요소의 시간 변화를 나타내는 물리방정식을 컴퓨터로 풀어 미래의 대기 상태를 예상하는 과학적인 방법으로 지구를 상세한 격자 2진부호(GRIdded Binary, 이하 GRIB)로 나누어 그 격자점에서의 값으로 대기 상태를 나타낸다. 지구 각지에서의 각종 관측자료를 기초로 격자점상의 현재값을 구한다. 대용량의 격자데이터는 이진형태이어서 컴퓨터, 서버 저장장치에서 동일형태 데이터로 존재한다. 우리나라 최초의 저궤도 관측 위성인 다목적 실용위성 KOMPSAT-1호(이하, 아리랑 위성1호)는 전자광학카메라(Electro Optical Camera, EOC)를 탑재하여 1999년 12월 21일에 발사된 이후 2006년 1월 현재까지 6여년간 성공적으로 임무를 수행, 7049여회의 영상을 획득하여 국가적으로 귀중한 자료로 활용하고 있다. 아리랑 위성1호는 일일 2-3회 EOC영상을 획득하고 있으며, 임무계획(Mission Planning)은 MP(Mission Planner)가 사용자로부터 자료를 수집하여 임무분석 및 계획 서브시스템(MAPS)에 의해 계산되어진 위성의 제도예측 데이터에 촬영하고자하는 목표지점 좌표를 입력하여 자동명령생성기(KSCG)에 의해 계산된 촬영 경사각도(Tilt)값을 위성에 전송하여 목표지역의 영상을 획득하게 된다. 위성영상 획득에 있어 고가의 위성을 운영하면서 기상의 상태를 정확히 예측하여 실패없이 유효한 영상을 획득하는 것이 무엇보다 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 효율적인 위성임무계획을 위한 기상수치예보 자료를 분석하여 앞으로 발사하게 될 고해상 카메라 탑제위성인 아리랑 위성2호와 3호에 적용하고자 한다. the sufficient excess reactivity to override this poisoning must be inserted, or its concentration is decreased sufficiently when its temporary shutdown is required. As ratter of fact, these have an important influence not only on reactor safety but also on economic aspect in operation. Considering these points in this study, the shutdown process was cptimized using the Pontryagin's maximum principle so that the shutdown mirth[d was improved as to restart the reactor to its fulpower at any time, but the xenon concentration did not excess the constrained allowable value during and after shutdown, at the same time all the control actions were completed within minimum time from beginning of the shutdown.및 12.36%, $101{\sim}200$일의 경우 12.78% 및 12.44%, 201일 이상의 경우 13.17% 및 11.30%로 201일 이상의 유기의 경우에만 대조구와 삭제 구간에 유의적인(p<0.05) 차이를 나타내었다.는 담수(淡水)에서 10%o의 해수(海水)

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