• 신재생에너지
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.37-41
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• 2011

This paper presents a Combined solar-wave Power Generation (CPG) concept that the CPG unit is maintained as buoyant at the level of sea water and it is also supported by a submerged tunnel, with the aim of supplying emergency electric power during the station blackout events of nuclear power plants. The CPG concept has been motivated from the 2011 Fukushima-Daiichi Accidents due to the loss of both offsite AC power and emergency diesel power caused by natural hazards such as earthquake and tsunami. The CPG is conceptualized by applying different types and different sites for emergency power generation, in order to reduce common cause failures of emergency power suppliers due to natural hazards. Thus, the CPG can provide a new mean for supplying emergency electric power during station blackout events of nuclear power plants. For this application, the CPG requirements are described with a typical configuration at the ocean side of a submerged tunnel.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.285-299
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• 2016

Although South Korea experienced a rolling blackout in 2011, the possibility of a blackout in South Korea continues to increase due to rapid electrification. This study examines the problems of energy taxation and price distortions as possible reasons for the rapid electrification in South Korea, which is occurring at a faster rate than in Japan, Europe, and other developed countries. Further, we suggest new energy taxation and price systems designed to normalize electricity prices. In order to do so, we consider two possible scenarios: the first imposes a tax on bituminous coal for electricity generation and the second levies a tax to provide compensation for the potential damages from a nuclear accident. Based on these scenarios, we analyze the effects of a new energy system on electricity price and demand. The results show that a new energy system could guarantee the power generation costs and balance the relative prices between energy sources, and could also help prevent rapid electrification. Therefore, the suggested new energy system is expected to be utilized as a basis for energy policy to decrease the speed of electrification, thus preventing a blackout, and to induce the rational consumption of energy in South Korea.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제50권4호
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• pp.542-552
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• 2018

Operators face challenges to plan alternative countermeasures when no procedure exists to address the current plant state. A model-based approach is desired to aid operators in acquiring plant resources and deriving response plans. Multilevel flow modeling (MFM) is a functional modeling methodology that can represent intentional knowledge about systems, which is essential in response planning. This article investigates the capabilities of MFM to plan alternatives. It is concluded that MFM has a knowledge capability to represent alternative means that are designed for given ends and a reasoning capability to identify alternative functions that can causally influence the goal achievement. The second capability can be applied to find originally unassociated means to achieve a goal. This is vital in a situation where all designed means have failed. A technique of procedure synthesis can be used to express identified alternatives as a series of operations. A case of station blackout occurring at the boiling water reactor is described. An MFM model of a boiling water reactor is built according to the analysis of goals and functions. The accident situations are defined by the model, and several alternative countermeasures in terms of operating procedures are generated to achieve the goal of core cooling.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.191-196
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• 2010

Power system restoration following a massive or complete blackout starts with energizing the primary restorative transmission system. During this primary restoration process, unexpected overvoltage may happen due to nonlinear interaction between the unloaded transformer and the transmission system. In the case of the Myanmar electric power system, there are so many wide outage experiences, including complete blackout cases, caused by 230kV line faults and so on. Consequently, Myanmar's system operators have been well trained to deal with wide blackouts. Howver, system blackout restoration has been conducted by relying on the experience of only a few specialists. So, more scientific analysis is required to meet the requirements necessary to ensure fast and reliable system restoration. This paper presents analytical results on the primary restorative transmission system of Myanmar, focusing on the problems during the early restoration process. Methodologies are presented that handle load pick-up, terminal voltage and the reactive capability limitation of black-start generators to compensate the Ferranti effect. Static and dynamic simulation with the PSSolution and EMTDC programs respectively for the six cases are performed in order to select the primary restorative transmission lines.

• 천문학회보
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.58.2-58.2
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• 2018

Theoretically, the magnetic helicity transport flux through the solar surface into the upper atmosphere can be estimated indefinitely precisely by magnetic field footpoint tracking if the observational resolution is infinitely fine, even with magnetic flux emergence or submergence. In reality, the temporal and spatial resolutions of observations are limited. When magnetic flux emerging or submerging, the footpoint velocity goes to infinity and the normal magnetic field vanishes at the polarity inversion line. A finite observational resolution thus generates a blackout area in helicity flux estimation near the polarity inversion line. It is questioned how much magnetic helicity is underestimated with a footpoint tracking method due to the absence of information in the blackout area. We adopt the analytical models of Gold-Hoyle and Lundquist force-free flux ropes and let them emerging from below the solar surface. The observation and the helicity integration can start at different emerging stages of the flux rope, i.e., the photospheric plane initially cuts the flux rope at different levels. We calculate the magnetic helicity of the flux rope below the photospheric level, which is eventually to emerge, except the helicity hidden in the region to be swept by the blackout area with different widths. Our calculation suggests that the error in the integrated helicity flux estimate is about half of the real value or even larger when small scale magnetic structures emerge into the solar atmosphere.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제51권1호
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• pp.60-72
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• 2019

The air-cooled passive decay heat removal system (APDHR) was proposed to provide the ultimate heat sink for non-LOCA accidents. The APDHR is a modified one of Passive Auxiliary Feed-water system (PAFS) installed in APR+. The PAFS has a heat exchanger in the Passive Condensate Cooling Tank (PCCT) and can remove decay heat for 8 h. After that, the heat transfer rate through the PAFS drastically decreases because the heat transfer condition changes from water to air. The APDHR with a vertical heat exchanger in PCCT will be able to remove the decay heat by air if it has sufficient natural convection in PCCT. We conducted the thermal-hydraulic simulation by the MARS code to investigate the behavior of the APR + selected as a reference plant for the simulation. The simulation contains two phases based on water depletion: the early phase and the late phase. In the early phase, the volume of water in PCCT was determined to avoid the water depletion in three days after shutdown. In the late phase, when the number of the HXs is greater than 4089 per PCCT, the MARS simulation confirmed the long-term cooling by air is possible under extended Station Blackout (SBO).

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권12호
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• pp.4534-4550
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• 2022

Integrated severe accident codes should be capable of simulating not only specific physical phenomena but also entire plant behaviors, and in a sufficiently fast time. However, significant uncertainty may exist owing to the numerous parametric models and interactions among the various phenomena. The primary objectives of this study are to present best-practice uncertainty and sensitivity analysis results regarding the evolutions of severe accidents (SAs) and fission product source terms and to determine the effects of mitigation measures on them, as expected during a short-term station blackout (STSBO) of a reference pressurized water reactor (optimized power reactor (OPR)1000). Three reference scenarios related to the STSBO accident are considered: one base and two mitigation scenarios, and the impacts of dedicated severe accident mitigation (SAM) actions on the results of interest are analyzed (such as flammable gas generation). The uncertainties are quantified based on a random set of Monte Carlo samples per case scenario. The relative importance values of the uncertain input parameters to the results of interest are quantitatively evaluated through a relevant sensitivity/importance analysis.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제56권1호
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• pp.141-146
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• 2024

Station blackout (SBO) risk is one of the most significant contributors to nuclear power plant risk. In this paper, the sequence probability formulas derived by the convolution approach are compared with those derived by the conventional event tree/fault tree (ET/FT) approach for the SBO situation in which emergency diesel generators fail to start. The comparison identifies what makes the ET/FT approach more conservative and raises the issue regarding the mission time of a turbine-driven auxiliary feedwater pump (TDP), which suggests a possible modeling improvement in the ET/FT approach. Monte Carlo simulations with up-to-date component reliability data validate the convolution approach. The sequence probability of an alternative alternating current diesel generator (AAC DG) failing to start and the TDP failing to operate owing to battery depletion contributes most to the SBO risk. The probability overestimation of the scenario in which the AAC DG fails to run and the TDP fails to operate owing to battery depletion contributes most to the SBO risk overestimation determined by the ET/FT approach. The modification of the TDP mission time renders the sequence probabilities determined by the ET/FT approach more consistent with those determined by the convolution approach.

• 시큐리티연구
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• 제10호
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• pp.387-407
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• 2005

정보통신의 기술 발달로 인하여 국가안보와 직접적으로 관련된 국가사회의 주요인프라인 에너지 기반구조, 물류 기반구조, 금융 기반구조, 생활필수 기반구조가 상호 연결되면서 상호의존성이 크게 증가하고 있다. 국가기반구조가 정보통신 기반구조와 밀접하게 연결되면 다양한 정보서비스를 제공하는 긍정적인 측면과 더불어 새로운 위험요인을 내포하게 된다. 그러나 지금까지의 현대정보사회의 기술위험에 관한 논의는 원자력 사고, 화재, 교통재해, 가스안전사고 등 공중에게 직접적인 피해를 입히는 1차적 위험요소에 초점을 두고 있었던 반면, 그것 자체가 직접적인 위험요소는 아니지만 일단 사고가 발생하면 정보통신 기술의 발달로 인해 이루어진 국가기반구조 전반에 대한 운행(operation)을 저해하고 제반 위험관리기능을 마비시킴으로써 보다 광범위한 위험을 발생시킬 수 있는 제2차적인 위험요소에 대한 연구는 별로 없었다고 할 수 있다. 사회의 모든 부문에서 자동화와 정보화가 진행될수록 전기에 대한 의존이 커지는 이른 바 ‘전력화현상(electrification)'이 심화되고 있음을 감안할 때, 정보사회의 안보(安保)(security) 저해요소로서의 정전의 중요성이 갈수록 높아진다고 하겠다. 따라서 대규모 정전사태의 문제는 국가위기관리 차원에서 효과적으로 다루어야 하며 정보사회로의 진전이 급속도로 이루어질수록 대규모 정전사태에 대비한 관리체계가 매우 중요하다고 하겠다. 여기에서는 지금까지 발생한 대규모 정전사태의 사례를 분석하고 발생 원인을 심층적으로 살펴본 다음 한국의 정전관리체계를 국가위기관리 단계인 예방(완화 및 대비), 대응, 복구(보상) 단계에 대대 각각 조사해보았다. 결론에서는 보다 나은 효율적인 정전관리체계 수립을 위한 정책적 제안으로 전력의 안전공급체제 견지, 비상전원 설치에 대한 정책적 지원, 정전피해보상제도 개선 등을 제시하였다.

• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.74-81
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• 2016

여객선을 이용하는 대부분의 일반 승객들은 승선환경 비숙련자이기 때문에, 재난환경에서 일반승객의 행동특성을 파악하고 이를 재난대응방안수립에 반영하는 것은 매우 중요한 일이다. 이 연구는 재난상황 중 발생 가능성이 매우 높은 정전조건에서 선내환경 비숙련자들의 이동특성을 파악한 것이다. 연구성과를 정리하면 다음과 같다. 정상조명조건에 비해 정전조건일 때의 이동시간이 전구간에서는 155.8~247.1 %, 복도 구간에서는 56.9~331.7 %, 계단 구간에서는 75.3~152.9 % 각각 더 소요되는 것으로 측정되었다. 정전조건 시나리오 중에서도 피난유도기구가 설치된 경우가 그렇지 않은 경우에 비해 이동시간이 전구간에서는 21.6~24.0 %, 복도구간에서는 37.7~58.9 %, 계단구간에서는 18.7~19.2 % 각각 짧았다. 피난유도기구가 없는 정전조건에서 이동에 도움을 준 것이 무엇인가라는 설문에 대해 유효응답자의 60.7 %가 벽/계단(35.7 %), 핸드레일(25 %) 등 선내 구조물을 선택하였고, 28.6 %는 개인적 직감에 따라 이동하였다고 응답하였다. 그러나 피난유도기구가 부착된 실험에 참여한 후 동일한 설문에 대해서는 유효답변의 50 %가 피난유도기구를 선택하였다.