• 한국압력기기공학회 논문집
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.37-41
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• 2020

The Nuclear containment building is a main safety-related structure that performs shielding and conservation functions to prevent highly radioactive materials from leakage to the outside environment in the case of various environmental conditions and postulated accidents. The containment building contains a reactor, steam generator, pressurizer, tank, reactor coolant system, auxiliary system and engineering safety system, and is designed so that highly radioactive materials above the limits specified in 10 CFR 100 do not escape to the outside environment in the case of LOCA(Loss of Coolant Accident) for instance. The containment metal liner plate(CLP) is a carbon steel plate with a nominal plate thickness of 6 mm, which functions as a mold for the wall and dome of the containment building when concrete is filled, fulfills airtightness to prevent leakage of seriously radioactive materials. In recent years, backside corrosion was found on the liner plate in some domestic nuclear power plants. The main cause of backside corrosion was unfilled concrete. In this paper, an inspection technique of assessing filling suitability for CLP backside concrete is developed. Results show that the validity of inspection technique for CLP backside concrete using vibration sensor is successfully verified.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제32권10호
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• pp.873-881
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• 2008

Weld overlay is one of the residual stress mitigation methods which arrest crack initiation and crack growth. Therefore weld overlay can be applied to the region where cracking is likely to be. An overlay weld used in this manner is termed a preemptive weld overlay(PWOL). In pressurized water reactor(PWR) dissimilar metal weld is susceptible region for primary water stress corrosion cracking(PWSCC). In order to examine the effect of PWOL on residual stress mitigation, PWOL was applied to a specific dissimilar metal weld of Kori nuclear power plant by finite element analysis method. As a result, strong compressive residual stress was made in PWSCC susceptible region and PWOL was proved effective preemptive repair method for weldment.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.265-273
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• 1996

Among those tests performed during the Yonggwang Nuclear Power Plant Units 3 and 4 (YGN 3&4) Power Ascension Test period, the Loss of a Main Feedwater Pump test at l00% power is one of the major test which characterize the capability of YGN 3&4. In this event, one of the two normally operating main feedwater pumps is tripped resulting in a 50% reduction in the feedwater flow. Unless the NSSS and Turbine/Generator control systems actuate properly, the reactor will be tripped on low SG water level or high pressurizer pressure. The test performed at Unit 3 was successful by meeting all acceptance criteria, and the plant was stabilized at a reduced power level without reactor trip. The measured test data for the major plant parameters are compared with the predictions made by the KISPAC computer code, an updated best-estimate plant performance analysis code, to verify and validate its applicability. The comparison results showed good agreement in the magnitude as well as the trends of the major plant parameters. Therefore, the KISPAC code can be utilized for the best-estimate nuclear power plant design and simulation tool after a further verification using other plant test data.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.358-369
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• 2002

Abundant information about analyses of single steam generator tube rupture (SGTR) events is available because of its importance in terms of safety. However, there are few literatures available on analyses of multiple steam generator tube rupture (MSGTR) events. In addition, knowledge of transients and consequences following a MSGTR event are very limited as there has been no occurrence of MSGTR event in the commercial operation of nuclear reactors. In this study, a postulated MSGTR event in an APR1400 is analyzed using thermal-hydraulic system code MARSI.4. The present study aims to examine the effects of affected steam generator selection. The main steam safety valve (MSSV) lift time for four cases are compared in order to examine how long operator response time is allowed depending on which steam generate. (S/G) is affected. The comparison shows that the cases where two steam generators are simultaneously affected allow longer time for operator action compared with the cases where a single steam generator is affected. Furthermore, the tube ruptures in the steam generator where a pressurizer is connected leads to the shortest operator response time.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제52권12호
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• pp.2918-2927
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• 2020

This paper proposes a simplified elastic-plastic analysis procedure using the penalty factors presented in the Code Case N-779 for strain-based fatigue assessment of nuclear safety class 1 components under severe seismic loads such as safety shutdown earthquake and beyond design-basis earthquake. First, a simplified elastic-plastic analysis procedure for strain-based fatigue assessment of nuclear safety class 1 components under the severe seismic loads was proposed based on the analysis result for the simplified elastic-plastic analysis procedure in the Code Case N-779 and the stress categories corresponding to normal operation and seismic loads. Second, total strain amplitude was calculated directly by performing finite element cyclic elastic-plastic seismic analysis for a hot leg nozzle in pressurizer surge line subject to combined loading including deadweight, pressure, seismic inertia load, and seismic anchor motion, as well as was derived indirectly by applying the proposed analysis procedure to the finite element elastic stress analysis result for each load. Third, strain-based fatigue assessment was implemented by applying the strain-based fatigue acceptance criteria in the ASME B&PV Code, Sec. III, Subsec. NB, Article NB-3200 and by using the total strain amplitude values calculated. Last, the total strain amplitude and the fatigue assessment result corresponding to the simplified elastic-plastic analysis were compared with those using the finite element elastic-plastic seismic analysis results. As a result of the comparison, it was identified that the proposed analysis procedure can derive reasonable and conservative results.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권1호
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• pp.131-143
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• 2023

Constitutive equations in a nuclear reactor safety analysis code are mostly empirical correlations developed from experiments, which always accompany uncertainties. The accuracy of the code can be improved by modifying the constitutive equations fitting wider range of data with less uncertainty. Thus, the sensitivity of the code with respect to the constitutive equations is evaluated quantitatively in the paper to understand the room for improvement of the code. A new methodology is proposed which first starts by dividing the thermal hydraulic conditions into multiple sub-regimes using self-organizing map (SOM) clustering method. The sensitivity analysis is then conducted by multiplying an arbitrary set of coefficients to the constitutive equations for each sub-divided thermal-hydraulic regime with SOM to observe how the code accuracy varies. The randomly chosen multiplier coefficient represents the uncertainty of the constitutive equations. Furthermore, the set with the smallest error with the selected experimental data can be obtained and can provide insight which direction should the constitutive equations be modified to improve the code accuracy. The newly proposed method is applied to a steady-state experiment and a transient experiment to illustrate how the method can provide insight to the code developer.

• 에너지공학
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.74-83
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• 2003

APR1400과 같은 차세대 원자력발전소에서는 원자로 안전성을 증진시키기 위하여 SDVS와 같은 계통을 도입하고 있다. 완전급수상실사고와 같은 경우는 POSRV가 개방되어 수조내 Sparger를 통하여 증기가 방출·응축되게 된다 증기가 응축함에 있어서 설계에서 고려해야 될 사항은 하중과 수조 혼합이며 증기제트 응축의 물리적 현상 이해를 통하여 적절한 대처를 마련할 수 있다. 수조내 Sparger를 통하여 분사되는 증기 응축에 대하여 하중과 수조 혼합 검토에 도움이 될 수 있도록 증기제트 응축의 물리적 현상 이해에 대한 검토와 평가를 수행하였다.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2008년도 추계학술대회A
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• pp.85-87
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• 2008

DMWs are common feature of the PWR in the welded connections between carbon steel and stainless steel piping. The nickel-based weld metal, Alloy 82/182, is used for welding the dissimilar metals and is known to be susceptible to PWSCC. A round-robin program has been implemented to benchmark the numerical simulation of the transient temperature and weld residual stresses in the DMWs. To solve the round-robin problem related to Pressurizer Safety & Relief nozzle, the thermal elasto-plastic analysis is performed in the DMW by using the FEM. The welding includes both the DMW of the nozzle to safe-end and the SMW of the safe-end and piping. Major results of the analyses are discussed: The axial and circumferential residual stresses are found to be -88MPa(225MPa) and -38MPa(293MPa) on the inner surface of the DMW; where the values in parenthesis are the residual stresses after the DMW. Thermo-mechanical interaction by the SMW has a significant effect on the residual stress fields in the DMW.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.27-35
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• 1996

본 논문에서는, 가압경수로 발전소의 가압기 밀림관내 비정상상태의 열성층현상에 대한 계산 모델을 제안하여 배관내의 온도분포, 유동특성 및 열응력에 대해 연구하였다. 경계면이 시간에 따라 변화가 없거나 정상상태에서 개발된 다른 모델과는 달리 본 모델에서는 고온 및 저온유체 사이의 경계면을 시간의 함수로 가정하였다. 열성층현상에 대한 무차원지배방정식은 SIMPLE 알고리즘을 사용하여 해를 구하였다. 본 수치계산의 결과는 주어진 조건하에서 무차원시간이 약 27.0 일 때 배관의 고온부 및 저온부사이의 최대무차원온도차는 0.78정도이었고, 이때의 열성층 현상에 의한 최대 열응력은 276 MPa로 계산되었다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.83-97
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• 1985

GLR (Generalized Likelihood Ratio)방식은 최적상태 변수 추정기인 Kalman-Buchy 필터로부터 발생되는 연속 Innovation들에 대해 통계확률적검사를 수행함으로써 시스템 고장 탐지 및 종류를 판별하게 된다. 그러나, 이러한 종전의 GLR방식은 각 경우마다 특별한 고장 형태를 가정해야 하므로, 모든 가능한 고장 형태를 탐지하는 데 많은 어려움이 있다. 이번 논문에서는 이런 난제를 해결할 한 방법을 제시하였다. 그리고, 가압경수형 원자력발전소 일차측 압력을 조절하는 가압기에 적용시켜 본 결과, 어떤 형태의 고장이든 잘 탐지되고 그 종류도 구별할 수 있음을 보여주었으며, 종전방식에 비해 고장 탐지 및 고장 구별에 필요한 컴퓨터처리 시간도 줄일 수가 있었다.