• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권12호
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• pp.3990-4002
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• 2021

CSPACE (Core meltdown, Safety and Performance Analysis CodE for nuclear power plants) for a simulation of severe accident progression in a Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) is developed by coupling of verified system thermal hydraulic code of SPACE (Safety and Performance Analysis CodE for nuclear power plants) and core damage progression code of COMPASS (Core Meltdown Progression Accident Simulation Software). SPACE is responsible for the description of fluid state in nuclear system nodes, while COMPASS is responsible for the prediction of thermal and mechanical responses of core fuels and reactor vessel heat structures. New heat transfer models to each phase of the fluid, flow blockage, corium behavior in the lower head are added to COMPASS. Then, an interface module for the data transfer between two codes was developed to enable coupling. An implicit coupling scheme of wall heat transfer was applied to prevent fluid temperature oscillation. To validate the performance of newly developed code CSPACE, we analyzed typical severe accident scenarios for OPR1000 (Optimized Power Reactor 1000), which were initiated from large break loss of coolant accident, small break loss of coolant accident, and station black out accident. The results including thermal hydraulic behavior of RCS, core damage progression, hydrogen generation, corium behavior in the lower head, reactor vessel failure were reasonable and consistent. We demonstrate that CSPACE provides a good platform for the prediction of severe accident progression by detailed review of analysis results and a qualitative comparison with the results of previous MELCOR analysis.

• 대한화상학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.42-53
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• 2020

Purpose: It is important to consider both clinical factors and epidemiological factors in treating burn patients in emergency rooms. However, many emergency medical staffs happen to miss their chances of treating burns based on these considerations. This study is designed to find a better treatment for burn patients in emergency rooms along this approach. Methods: This study was conducted based on the data of the burn patients visiting the emergency room of a single general hospital from January 2015 to December 2019. The epidemiological and clinical factors were extracted out of the data, then the relationship between the prognosis and these factors were analyzed. Results: Most of burn accidents occurred at home, and were caused by hot water, soup, drinks, oil, etc. Especially, flame burns showed high hospitalization rate, surgical rate and mortality. In addition, their prognosis was poor when the affected area included facial, limb and perineal areas etc., or any inhalation burn co-existed. Also, the hospitalization rate and period increased when the treatment time was delayed or the pre-treatment was taken. There was a strong relationship between prognosis and the period of follow-up when patients were admitted during the period. Conclusion: It is difficult for medical staffs to evaluate prognosis of burns in emergency rooms due to progressive damages. Precise treatment and disposition are essential for patients' good prognosis. Therefore, medical staffs should establish treatment plans by identifying the patient's epidemiological and clinical factors, rather than giving prescriptions based on fragmentary and superficial symptoms.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제46권3호
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• pp.285-292
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• 2023

As various accidents have occurred in underground spaces, we aim to improve the quality validation standards and methods as specified in the Regulations on Producing Integrated Map of Underground Spaces devised by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of the Republic of Korea for a high-quality integrated map of underground spaces. Specifically, we propose measures to improve the quality assurance of pipeline-type underground facilities, the so-called life lines given their importance for citizens' daily activities and their highest risk of accident among the 16 types of underground facilities. After implementing quality validation software based on the developed quality validation standards, the adequacy of the validation standards was demonstrated by testing using data from two-dimensional water supply facilities in some areas of Busan, Korea. This paper has great significance in that it has laid the foundation for reducing the time and manpower required for data quality inspection and improving data quality reliability by improving current quality validation standards and developing technologies that can automatically extract errors through software.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제28권10호
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• pp.207-215
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• 2023

선박 시스템은 복잡하고 고도화되어 있으며, 각 요소 간 업무연관성이 굉장히 높다 보니 관련된 사고를 예방하기 위해서는 사고를 분석할 때 사고의 직접적 원인을 찾아 제거하는 전통적인 순차적 접근방법에 더하여 전반적이고 통합적인 시스템의 측면에서 접근할 필요가 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 전통적인 사고분석 기법과는 다른 STAMP 방법론을 사용하여 선박에서 발생한 화재사고를 분석한다. 이 분석을 통해 선박 내 화재를 예방하기 위한 안전 요구 사항, 부적절한 결정과 조치, 상황, 장비 결함 및 사고분석 결과에서 도출된 권고 사항을 포함한 다양한 요소를 검토한다. STAMP를 이용한 사고 예방에 대한 종합적인 접근을 통해 선박이라는 전체 시스템 내에서 구성 요소 수준에서 대안 평가를 제시하고, 단순한 사고분석 뿐만 아니라 사고 예방 및 위험 평가에도 체계적으로 활용하고자 한다.

• 한국지리정보학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.56-66
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• 2023

지상공간의 확보를 위해 도시정비사업, 재개발사업, 고속도로 지하화 등의 굴착공사가 수반된 건설공사가 증가하고 있다. 더불어 이런 건설공사 또는 자연의 영향으로 인해 지하수위가 변동되거나, 노후 상하수도 관로로 인한 토사유출이 원인이 되어 지반함몰이 발생하는 등의 안전사고가 증가하고 있다. 지하시설물 관리기관은 강화된 지하안전관리에 관한 특별법에 따라 지속적인 조사와 탐사를 통해 지하정보의 정확도 향상을 위한 노력을 수행해야 하는 실정이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 지하시설물의 정확도 확보를 할 수 있도록 3차원 정밀탐사 지하시설물 정보 수집을 위해 장비의 구성과 데이터 처리방식을 정의한다. 그리고 3차원 지하시설물 정보 수집 기술을 개발한다. 이후 개발된 기술을 검증한 결과 수평정확도가 기존 방식 대비 오차를 평균 6cm 가량 향상시켜 공공측량작업규정의 오차범위 이내의 3차원 지하시설물 정보를 취득할 수 있었고, 수직정확도는 기존과 동일한 수준을 확인한다. 향후 본 연구에서 제안한 차량형 3차원 지하시설물 정보수집기술을 활용한다면, 공공측량 성과심사를 득할 수 있는 수준의 지하시설물 정보를 신속하게 대량으로 취득할 수 있는 수집체계 구축이 가능할 것으로 보인다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제56권1호
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• pp.9-18
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• 2024

In-vessel retention through external reactor vessel cooling (IVR-ERVC) is a severe accident management (SAM) strategy that has been adopted and used in many nuclear reactors such as AP1000, APR1400, and light water reactor etc. Some reactor accidents have raised concerns about nuclear reactors among residents, leading to a decrease in residents' acceptability and many studies on SAM are being conducted. Experiments on IVR-ERVC are almost impossible due to its specificity, so fluid characteristics are analyzed through BALI experiments with similar condition. In this study, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) via Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) and large eddy simulation (LES) for BALI experiments were performed. Steady-state CFD analysis was performed on three turbulence models, and SST k-ω model was in good agreement with the experimental measurement temperature within the maximum error range of 1.9%. LES CFD analysis was performed based on the RANS analysis results and it was confirmed that the temperature and wall heat flux for depth was consistent within an error range of 1.0% with BALI experiment. The LES CFD analysis results were compared with those of the Lagrangian-based solver. LES matched the temperature distribution better than SOPHIA, but SOPHIA calculated the position of boundary between stratified layer and convective layer more accurately. On the other hand, Lagrangian-based solver predicted several small eddy behaviors of the convective layer and LES predicted large vortex behavior. The vibration characteristics near the cooling part of the BALI experimental device were confirmed through Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) investigation. It was found that the power spectral density for pressure at least 10 times higher near the side cooling than near the top cooling.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2024

Weather is one of the main causes of aircraft accidents, and among the phenomena caused by weather, icing is a phenomenon in which an ice layer is formed when an object exposed to an atmosphere below a freezing temperature collides with supercooled water droplets. If this phenomenon occurs in the rotor blades, it causes defects such as severe vibration in the airframe and eventually leads to loss of control and an accident. Therefore, it is necessary to foresee the icing situation so that it can ascend and descend at an altitude without a freezing point. In this study, vibration data in normal and faulty conditions was acquired, data features were extracted, and vibration was predicted through deep learning-based algorithms such as CNN, LSTM, CNN-LSTM, Transformer, and TCN, and performance was compared to evaluate blade icing. A method for minimizing operating loss is suggested.

• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.217-225
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• 2024

GMDSS 도입 이후에도 많은 해난사고가 증가하고 있다. 선박에서 사람이 물에 빠진 경우 구조신호를 전달하는 방법은 현재 다양한 방법으로 연구 및 개발되고 있지만, 해상이동업무용으로 지정된 주파수를 사용하는 제품의 개발은 이루어진 바 없다. 이에 따라 본 논문에서는 ITU의 최신 개정안을 통해 도입이 결정된 종별 B AMRD 기술을 적용하여 MOB 장치를 설계하고 제작해 보았다. 또한 제작된 송신기의 성능을 확인하기 위해 수신기와 사용자 인터페이스를 제작하여 기존의 전자해도와 연동해서 사용할 수 있음을 확인하였다. 본 논문을 통해 AIS기술을 이용하는 종별 B의 AMRD 일반조건과 기술조건을 만족하고 해상환경에서 휴대가 쉽도록 소형화하기 위한 집적화된 소자를 선택하여 MOB 장치를 설계 및 구현해 봄으로써 AIS의 우수한 통신이 실현되고 긴급 상황에서 신속한 대응 및 안전에 핵심적인 역할을 담당할 것이라 기대한다.

• 방사선산업학회지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.89-93
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• 2024

Accidents at nuclear facilities and nuclear power plants led to leaks of large amounts of radioactive substances. Of the various radioactive nuclides released, ¹³⁷Cs are radioactive substances generated during the fission of uranium. Therefore, due to the high fission yield (6.09%), strong gamma rays, and a relatively long half-life (30 years), a rapid and efficient removal method and a study of adsorbents are needed. Accordingly, an adsorbent was prepared using Prussian blue (PB), a material that selectively adsorbs radioactive cesium. As a result of evaluating the adsorption performance with the prepared adsorbent, it was confirmed that 82% of the removal efficiency was obtained, and most of the cesium was rapidly adsorbed within 10 to 15 minutes. The purpose of this study was to adsorb cesium using the Prussian blue alginate bead and to compare the change in detection efficiency according to the amount of adsorbent added for quantitative evaluation. However, in this case, it is difficult to determine the detection efficiency using a standard source with the same conditions as the measurement sample, so the efficiency change of the HPGe detector according to the different heights of Prussian blue was calculated through MCNP simulation using certified standard materials (1 L, Marinelli beaker) for radioactivity measurement. It is expected to derive a relational equation that can calculate detection efficiency through an efficiency curve according to the volume of Prussian blue, quantitatively evaluate the activity at the same time as the adsorption of radioactive nuclides in actual contaminated water and use it in the field of nuclear facility operation and dismantling in the future.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제56권10호
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• pp.4068-4076
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• 2024

In the event of severe accidents in pressurized water reactor (PWR) nuclear power plants, the potential leakage of radioactive aerosols through containment cracks poses a considerable radioactive hazard to the public. Understanding aerosol transport and retention in cracks helps reduce the conservatism and uncertainty of radioactive hazard assessment. Concrete cracks are recognized as a pivotal pathway for the leakage of radioactive aerosols, and several researchers have undertaken experimental investigations concerning the aerosol transport and retention in concrete cracks. However, the majority of these studies have rather low gas flow Reynolds numbers. In this work, an experimental setup is built to study aerosol transport and retention in concrete cracks under high Reynolds number flow. The TiO₂ aerosol with a mass median diameter of 1 ㎛ and two concrete crack specimens are used in experiments. The results of gas flow experiments indicate that the Reynolds number is capable of reaching 10547. Combining the flow experimental data and Suzuki's formula, the equivalent heights of these two crack specimens are approximated as 303.67 ㎛ and 231.48 ㎛. The experimental results indicate a notably high retention rate of aerosols, exceeding 0.8. Furthermore, under high Reynolds number flow, the retention rate varies over a relatively narrow range, with the larger the equivalent height of the crack resulting in a lower retention rate. The experimental results match well with the mechanistic analysis based on inertial deposition theory, demonstrating the rationality of the inertial deposition theory.