• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.116-122
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• 2012

미국 원자력규제위원회(U. S. NRC)에서 개발한 PAVAN 프로그램을 사용하여 기상자료의 통계처리방법에 따른 원자력발전소의 수명기간 중 발생할 수 있는 가상 사고시 단기 대기확산인자 값의 영향을 분석하였다. 대기확산을 평가하기 위한 기본요소는 기상자료이며, PAVAN에서는 대기안정도에 대한 풍향과 풍속의 발생빈도를 나타내는 결합빈도분포자료를 사용하여 평가한다. 고리와 월성 원자력발전소 부지에서 2006~2010년까지 5년간 관측된 기상자료를 사용하여 풍속등급의 분류방법(U. S. NRC 권고와 균등발생빈도 분류방법)과 평가에 적용되는 기상자료의 통계처리기간(1년, 2년, 3년, 4년, 5년)에 따른 결합빈도분포자료를 작성하여 단기 대기확산인자를 평가하였다. 평가결과, 두 원자력발전소 부지 모두 풍속등급의 분류에 따른 단기 대기확산인자 값의 영향은 미미한 반면 평가에 적용되는 기상자료의 분석기간은 상대적으로 중요한 영향을 나타냈는데, 최대값과 최소값의 비는 1.5배 이상의 차이를 보였다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권11호
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• pp.4159-4169
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• 2022

Hydrogen mitigation using Passive Autocatalytic Recombiners (PARs) has been widely accepted methodology inside reactor containment of accident struck Nuclear Power Plants. They reduce hydrogen concentration inside reactor containment by recombining it with oxygen from containment air on catalyst surfaces at ambient temperatures. Exothermic heat of reaction drives the product steam upwards, establishing natural convection around PAR, thus invoking homogenisation inside containment. CFD models resolving individual catalyst plate channels of PAR provide good insight about temperature and hydrogen recombination. But very thin catalyst plates compared to large dimensions of the enclosures involved result in intensive calculations. Hence, empirical correlations specific to PARs being modelled are often used in integral containment studies. In this work, an experimentally validated CFD model of PAR has been employed for developing an empirical correlation for Indian PAR. For this purpose, detailed parametric study involving different gas mixture variables at PAR inlet has been performed. For each case, respective values of gas mixture variables at recombiner outlet have been tabulated. The obtained data matrix has then been processed using regression analysis to obtain a set of correlations between inlet and outlet variables. The empirical correlation thus developed, can be easily plugged into commercially available CFD software.

• 한국생물정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물정보시스템생물학회 2003년도 제2차 연례학술대회 발표논문집
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• pp.268-274
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• 2003

Most currently known molecular structures were determined by X-ray crystallography or Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR). These methods generate a large amount of structure data, even far small molecules, and consist mainly of three-dimensional atomic coordinates. These are useful for analyzing molecular structure, but structure elements at higher level are also needed for a complete understanding of structure, and especially for structure prediction. Computational approaches exist for identifying secondary structural elements in proteins from atomic coordinates. However, similar methods have not been developed for RNA due in part to the very small amount of structure data so far available, and extracting the structural elements of RNA requires substantial manual work. Since the number of three-dimensional RNA structures is increasing, a more systematic and automated method is needed. We have developed a set of algorithms for recognizing secondary and tertiary structural elements in RNA molecules and in the protein-RNA structures in protein data banks (PDB). The present work represents the first attempt at extracting RNA structure elements from atomic coordinates in structure databases. The regularities in the structure elements revealed by the algorithms should provide useful information for predicting the structure of RNA molecules bound to proteins.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.361-371
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• 2000

The 123Te(p,n)123I, 124Te(p,n)124I and 124Te(p,2n)123I reactions, among the many reaction channels opened, are the major reactions under consideration from a diagnostic purpose because reaction residuals as the gamma emitters are used for most radiophamaceutical applications involving radioiodine. Based on the available experimental data, the absorption cross sections and elastic scattering angular distributions of the proton-induced nuclear reaction on Te isotopes below 60 MeV are calculated using the optical model code APMNK. The transmission coefficients of neutron, proton, deuteron, trition and alpha particles are calculated by CUNF code and are fed into the GNASH code. By adjusting level density parameters and the pair correction values of some reaction channels, as well as the composite nucleus state density constants of the pre-equilibrium model, the production cross sections and energy-angle correlated spectra of the secondary light particles, as well as production cross sections and energy distributions of heavy recoils and gamma rays are calculated by the statistical plus pre-equilibrium model code GNASH. The calculated results are analysed and compared with the experimental data taken from the EXFOR. The optimized global optical model parameters give overall agreement with the experimental data over both the entire energy range and all tellurium isotopes.

• 대한금속재료학회지
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• 제50권10호
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• pp.721-728
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• 2012

This paper evaluates the reliability of creep rupture life under service conditions of Alloy 617, which is considered as one of the candidate materials for use in a very high temperature reactor (VHTR) system. A Z-parameter, which represents the deviation of creep rupture data from the master curve, was used for the reliability analysis of the creep rupture data of Alloy 617. A Service-condition Creep Rupture Interference (SCRI) model, which can consider both the scattering of the creep rupture data and the fluctuations of temperature and stress under any service conditions, was also used for evaluating the reliability of creep rupture life. The statistical analysis showed that the scattering of creep rupture data based on Z-parameter was supported by normal distribution. The values of reliability decreased rapidly with increasing amplitudes of temperature and stress fluctuations. The results established that the reliability decreased with an increasing service time.

• 한국광물학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.351-356
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• 2007

수소원자를 포함한 강유전체 $Li(NH_4)SO_4$의 중수소 치환형인 $Li(ND_4)SO_4$ 단결정에 대해 X-선과 중성자 회절법으로 결정구조를 연구하였다. 이 결정은 상온에서 사방정계이고 공간군은 $P2_1nb$이다. 격자상수는 $a=5.2773(5)\;{\AA},\;b=9.1244(23)\;{\AA},\;c=8.7719(11)\;{\AA}$이며 Z=4이다. 한국원자력연구원의 연구용 원자로인 하나로에 설치된 중성자 4축 단결정 회절장치로 중성자데이터를 수집하였으며, X-선 회절데이터는 일본 동북대학교 물리학과에서 측정하였다. X-선 회절법으로 수집한 1450개의 독립 회절반점에 대하여 최소자승법으로 정밀화하여 최종 신뢰도값 R=0.070을 얻었으며, 중성자 회절법으로는 745개의 회절반점에 대하여 R=0.049을 얻었다. X-선 회절데이터 분석 결과 결정구조 내의 수소원자 중 1개의 위치만을 얻었으나, 중성자 회절법으로는 $NH_4$ 사면체의 수소/중수소원자의 위치는 물론 H를 치환해서 들어간 D의 점유율을 정련하여 측정시료의 평균화학식이 $LiND_{3.05}H_{0.95}SO_4$임을 밝혔다.

• 한국원자력학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국원자력학회 1997년도 춘계학술발표회논문집(1)
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• pp.39-44
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• 1997

The International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP) is under way for the purpose identifying, evaluating, and compiling benchmark critical experiment data into a standardized format that allows criticality analysts to easily use the data to validate calculational methods and cross sections. As part of this activity, PNL30-35 experiments, which had been adopted as benchmark problems by CSEWG in 1970s, were reevaluated, which results in some additions and modifications: changes in fuel number density, modification to the experimental keff, modifications to the soluble boron concentration for PNL-31, and addition of an uncertainty in the benchmark-model k$_{eff}$./.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2005년도 심포지엄 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.75-77
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• 2005

An integrated I&C architecture for nuclear power plants is designed by the systems and devices being developed in a project. Its design reference is the APR1400 that was design certified in Korea. Digital equipment and several kinds of data communication networks (DCN) are used. To confirm the validity of DCN based architecture design, the traffic loads fur each network were calculated assuming the anticipated maximum traffic condition. The analysis showed that the utilizations of all networks satisfied the design requirements.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제41권3호
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• pp.295-306
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• 2009

The subchannel grade void distributions in the NUPEC (Nuclear Power Engineering Corporation) BFBT (BWR Full-Size Fine-Mesh Bundle Tests) facility were evaluated with the subchannel analysis code MATRA and the system code MARS. Fifteen test series from five different test bundles were selected for an analysis of the steady-state subchannel void distributions. Two transient cases, a turbine trip without a bypass as a typical power transient and a re-circulation pump trip as a flow transient, were also chosen for this analysis. It was found that the steady-state void distributions calculated by both the MATRA and MARS codes coincided well with the measured data in the range of thermodynamic qualities from 5% to 25%. The results of the transient calculations were also similar and were highly feasible. However, the computational aspects of the two codes were clearly different.

• BMB Reports
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.525-535
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• 1998

A critical step in the faithful translation of genetic information is specific tRNA recognition by aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases. These enzymes catalyze the covalent attachment of particular amino acids to the terminal adenosine of cognate tRNA substrates. In general, there is one synthetase for each of the twenty amino acids and each enzyme must discriminate against all of the cellular tRNAs that are specific for the nineteen noncognate amino acids. Primary sequence information combined with structural data have resulted in the division of the twenty synthetases into two classes. In recent years, several high-resolution co-crystal structures along with biochemical data have led to an increased understanding of tRNA recognition by synthetases of both classes. The anticodon sequence and the amino acid acceptor stem are the most common locations for critical recognition elements. This review will focus on acceptor stem discrimination by class II synthetases. In particular, the results of in vitro aminoacylation assays and site-directed and atomic group mutagenesis studies will be discussed. These studies have revealed that even subtle atomic determinants can provide signals for specific tRNA aminoacylation.