• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.503-517
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• 1995

강제대류 천이비등 열유속을 보다 실제 적으로 예측하기 위한 역학적 모델을 개발하였다. 이 모델은 가열된 벽면 근처를 어떤 기포기둥(Vapor Blanket)이 통과할 때 일어나는 다단계 비등과정 즉, 임계 기포기둥의 형성, 기포기둥밑의 미소액막(Macrolayer)의 기화 및 고갈, 그리고 얇은 기체막에서 일어나는 불안정한 막비등과정에 기초하였다. 핵비등이탈점 (DNB )과 막비등이탈점 (DFB)사이의 천이비등 곡선상의 열유속은 임계 기포기둥이 주어진 벽면을 통과할 동안 상기한 각 비등과정의 지속 시간비(Time Fraction)를 각 비등열유속에 곱한 후 그것을 합하여 정량화하였다. 이 모델의 예측치를 현재까지 발표된 문헌들에 나타난 실험치와 비교한 결과, 본 모델은 저건도 및 10 bar 근처의 고압조건의 실험치를 잘예측하는 것으로 나타났다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제49권4호
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• pp.760-768
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• 2017

The transition temperature shift (TTS) of the reactor pressure vessel materials is an important factor that determines the lifetime of a nuclear power plant. The prediction of the TTS at the end of a plant's lifespan is calculated based on the equation of Regulatory Guide 1.99 revision 2 (RG1.99/2) from the US. The fluence factor in the equation was expressed as a power function, and the exponent value was determined by the early surveillance data in the US. Recently, an advanced approach to estimate the TTS was proposed in various countries for nuclear power plants, and Korea is considering the development of a new TTS model. In this study, the TTS trend of the Korean surveillance test results was analyzed using a nonlinear regression model and a mixed-effect model based on the power function. The nonlinear regression model yielded a similar exponent as the power function in the fluence compared with RG1.99/2. The mixed-effect model had a higher value of the exponent and showed superior goodness of fit compared with the nonlinear regression model. Compared with RG1.99/2 and RG1.99/3, the mixed-effect model provided a more accurate prediction of the TTS.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제17권7호
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• pp.691-696
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• 2004

The electronic state and chemical bonding of $\beta$-MnO$_2$ with transition metal dopants were theoretically investigated by DV-X$_{\alpha}$ (the discrete variational X$_{\alpha}$) method, which is a sort of the first principles molecular orbital method using the Hartree-Fock-Slater approximation. The calculations were performed with a $_Mn_{14}$ MO$_{56}$ )$^{-52}$ (M = transition metals) cluster model. The electron energy level, the density of states (DOS), the overlap population, the charge density distribution, and the net charges, were calculated. The energy level diagram of MnO$_2$ shows the different band structure and electron occupancy between the up spin states and down spin states. The dopant levels decrease between the conduction band and the valence band with the increase of the atomic number of dopants. The covalency of chemical bonding was shown to increase and ionicity decreased in increasing the atomic number of dopants. Calculated results were discussed on the basis of the interaction between transition metal 3d and oxygen 2p orbital. In conclusion it is expected that when the transition metals are added to MnO$_2$ the band gap decreases and the electronic conductivity increases with the increase of the atomic number of dopants. the atomic number of dopants.

• 천문학회보
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• 제46권1호
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• pp.50.2-51
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• 2021

Stars form exclusively in cold and dense molecular clouds. To fully understand star formation processes, it is hence a key to investigate how molecular clouds form out of the surrounding diffuse atomic gas. With an aim of shedding light in the process of the atomic-to-molecular transition in the interstellar medium, we analyze Arecibo HI emission and absorption spectral pairs along with TRAO/PMO 12CO(1-0) emission spectra toward 58 lines of sight probing in and around molecular clouds in the solar neighborhood, i.e., Perseus, Taurus, and California. 12CO(1-0) is detected from 19 out of 58 lines of sight, and we report the physical properties of HI (e.g., central velocity, spin temperature, and column density) in the vicinity of CO. Our preliminary results show that the velocity difference between the cold HI (Cold Neutral Medium or CNM) and CO (median ~ 0.7 km/s) is on average more than a factor of two smaller than the velocity difference between the warm HI (Warm Neutral Medium or WNM) and CO (median ~ 1.7 km/s). In addition, we find that the CNM tends to become colder (median spin temperature ~ 43 K) and abundant (median CNM fraction ~ 0.55) as it gets closer to CO. These results hints at the evolution of the CNM in the vicinity of CO, implying a close association between the CNM and molecular gas. Finally, in order to examine the role of HI in the formation of molecular gas, we compare the observed CNM properties to the theoretical model by Bialy & Sternberg (2016), where the HI column density for the HI-to-H2 transition point is predicted as a function of density, metallicity, and UV radiation field. Our comparison shows that while the model reproduces the observations reasonably well on average, the observed CNM components with high column densities are much denser than the model prediction. Several sources of this discrepancy, e.g., missing physical and chemical ingredients in the model such as the multi-phase ISM, non-equilibrium chemistry, and turbulence, will be discussed.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제49권5호
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• pp.1109-1112
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• 2017

The precise prediction of radiation embrittlement of aged reactor pressure vessels (RPVs) is a prerequisite for the long-term operation of nuclear power plants beyond their original design life. The expiration of the operation licenses for Korean reactors the RPVs of which are made from SA533B-1 plates and welds is imminent. Korean regulatory rules have adopted the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission's transition temperature shift (TTS) models to the prediction of the embrittlement of Korean reactor pressure vessels. The applicability of the TTS model to predict the embrittlement of Korean RPVs made of SA533B-1 plates and welds was investigated in this study. It was concluded that the TTS model of 10 CFR 50.61a matched the trends of the radiation embrittlement in the SA533B-1 plates and welds better than did that of Regulatory Guide (RG) 1.99 Rev. 2. This is attributed to the fact that the prediction performance of 10 CFR 50.61a was enhanced by considering the difference in radiation embrittlement sensitivity among the different types of RPV materials.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.265-276
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• 1994

FLECHT-SEASET 실험에 대한 REIAP5/MOD3 평가시에 밝혀진 코드결함을 수정하기 위하여 RELAP5/MOD3 재관수 모델을 개선하였다. 모델개선은 재관수 열전달 모델의 수정과 분산유동영역의 액적 크기의 조절을 통하여 이루어졌으며 재관수 계산시 발생되는 압력 spike와 수위진동 등의 결함을 개선하기 위하여 벽면비등모델의 time-smoothing과 천이 유동시의 level tracking모델도 첨가되었다. FLECHT-SEASET 실험에 대한 개선모델의 검증과 발전소의 대형냉각재 상실 사고해석 응용에서 코드결함이 개선되었음을 알 수 있었다.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제47권4호
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• pp.481-487
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 기체(공기)-액체(용융탄산염) 이상 흐름계(용융염산화 공정)에서 공기유속(0.05~0.22 m/sec) 및 탄산용융염의 온도($870{\sim}970^{\circ}C$)가 흐름영역 전이특성에 미치는 영향을 공기 체류량의 drift-flux 및 차압요동의 추계학적 해석을 통하여 규명하였다. 흐름영역이 시작되는 공기 체류량값은 공기체류량-drift flux 그래프를 통하여 구하였다. 흐름영역 전이가 시작되는 공기 체류량 값은 탄산용융염의 온도가 증가함에 따라서 증가하였는데 이는 탄산용융염의 온도가 증가함에 따라서 액상의 점도와 표면장력의 감소로 인한 계의 안정화 때문이며 계의 특성에 가장 큰 영향을 미치는 기포특성(평균기포크기 및 상승속도)을 drift-flux 모델식을 적용하여 추정하였다. 흐름영역전이 특성을 좀 더 정량적으로 특성화하기 위하여 차압요동신호를 상공간투영 및 Kolmogorov entropy를 이용하여 해석하였다. Kolmogorov entropy는 탄산용융염의 온도가 증가함에 따라 감소하였으며 공기유속이 증가함에 따라서 증가하였으나 흐름영역에 따라서 다른 경향성을 나타내었고 흐름영역이 시작되는 공기유속값은 공기체류량의 drift-flux 해석으로 유도된 결과와 동일하였다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제46권3호
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• pp.413-422
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• 2014

Presented in this study are the variations of microstructures and mechanical properties with tempering and Post-Weld Heat Treatment (PWHT) conditions for SA508 Gr.4N steel used as Reactor Pressure Vessel (RPV) material. The blocks of model alloy were austenitized at the conventional temperature of $880^{\circ}C$ then tempered and post-weld heat treated at four different conditions. The hardness and yield strength decrease with increased tempering and PWHT temperatures, but impact toughness is significantly improved, especially in the specimens tempered at $630^{\circ}C$. The sample tempered at $630^{\circ}C$ with PWHT at $610^{\circ}C$ shows optimum mechanical properties in hardness, strength, and toughness, excluding only the transition property in the low temperature region. The microstructural observation and quantitative analysis of carbide size distribution show that the variations of mechanical properties are caused by the under-tempering and carbide coarsening which occurred during the heat treatment process. The introduction of PWHT results in the deterioration of the ductile-brittle transition property by an increase of coarse carbides controlling cleavage initiation, especially in the tempered state at $630^{\circ}C$.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권12호
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• pp.4022-4032
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• 2021

In this study, machine learning (ML) techniques were used to model surveillance test data of nuclear power plants from an international database of the ASTM E10.02 committee. Regression modeling was conducted using various techniques, including Cubist, XGBoost, and a support vector machine. The root mean square deviation of each ML model for the baseline dataset was less than that of the ASTM E900-15 nonlinear regression model. With respect to the interpolation, the ML methods provided excellent predictions with relatively few computations when applied to the given data range. The effect of the explanatory variables on the transition temperature shift (TTS) for the ML methods was analyzed, and the trends were slightly different from those for the ASTM E900-15 model. ML methods showed some weakness in the extrapolation of the fluence in comparison to the ASTM E900-15, while the Cubist method achieved an extrapolation to a certain extent. To achieve a more reliable prediction of the TTS, it was confirmed that advanced techniques should be considered for extrapolation when applying ML modeling.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.154-165
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• 1993

연속시간 마코프프로세스를 이용한 한 통계적 방법에 의한 일차원 지하 핵종이동 모델이 제시되었다. 지하매질은 보편적으로 지하수속도, 분산계수 또는 지연계수 등 물리화학적 변수 등의 비균질성을 보여 일반적인 결정론적 이류분산모델로는 잘 기술되지 않는다. 통계적 모델에서의 최종결과는 시간에 따른 함수로서의 기대값과 그 기대값의 분산도를 보여주는 분산치다. 매질이 균질하다고 생각될 정도로 나뉘어진 구획에 대한 핵종의 농도 분포를 구하여 결정론적인 해석해에 의한 농도분포와 비교하여 비균질 매질, 또는 현저하게 구분되는 다층매질의 경우에 대해서 유용 할 것이라는 결론을 얻었다. 매질을 나눈 구획수가 수치적 분산에 민감한 것으로 나타났지만 해석적 모델에 의해 분산계수가 보정될 수 있었다.