• 제목/요약/키워드: integrity assessment

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설악산국립공원 내 북천의 어류군집 특성 및 멸종위기종의 서식양상 (Fish Community Characteristics and Inhabiting Status of Endangered Species in the Bukcheon (Stream) of Seoraksan National Park, Korea)

  • 박승철;최광식;한미숙;고명훈
    • 한국환경생태학회지
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    • 제36권4호
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    • pp.390-401
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    • 2022
  • 설악산국립공원 내 북천의 어류군집 특성 및 멸종위기종의 서식현황을 밝히기 위해 2020년 4월부터 9월까지 조사를 실시하였다. 조사기간 동안 17개 지점에서 채집된 어류는 총 7과 22종 4,356개체였다. 우점종은 참갈겨니(Zacco koreanus, 41.8%), 아우점종은 금강모치(Rhynchocypris kumgangensis, 15.1%)였으며, 그 다음으로 돌고기(Pungtungia herzi, 10.1%), 가는돌고기(Pseudopungtungia tenuicorpa, 5.0%), 쉬리(Coreoleuciscus splendidus, 4.1%), 피라미(Z. platypus, 3.8), 배가사리(Microphysogobio longidorsalis, 3.5%), 어름치(Hemibarbus mylodon, 2.2%) 등의 순으로 우세하였다. 출현종 중 한국고유종은 14종(63.6%)이 확인되어 상대비율이 높았다. 법정보호종은 천연기념물 어름치 1종과 환경부지정 멸종위기 야생생물 II급의 묵납자루(Acheilognathus signifer), 가는돌고기, 돌상어(Gobiobotia brevibarba), 열목어(Brachymystax lenok tsinlingensis) 4종이 출현하였는데, 열목어는 상류부에, 어름치와 묵납자루, 가는돌고기, 돌상어는 중·하류에 주로 서식하고 있었으며, 어름치와 가는돌고기, 열목어는 서식개체수가 많았다. 기후변화민감종(냉수성 어종)은 금강모치와 열목어 2종이 확인되었다. 군집분석 결과, 상류에서 하류로 갈수록 우점도는 낮아지나 다양도와 균등도, 풍부도는 높아지는 경향을 보였으며, 군집구조는 최상류와 상류, 중류, 하류로 구분되었다. 북천의 수질은 전체적으로 매우 좋음으로 평가되었고, 어류를 이용한 하천 건강성은 매우 좋음(11개 지점), 좋음(2개지점), 보통(4개 지점)으로 평가되어 양호하였다. 하지만 일부지역에서 하천공사가 진행되고 중류부에서 생활하수가 유입되고 있어, 이에 대한 어류 서식지 보존 대책이 요구되었다.

APPLICATION OF FUZZY SET THEORY IN SAFEGUARDS

  • Fattah, A.;Nishiwaki, Y.
    • 한국지능시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국퍼지및지능시스템학회 1993년도 Fifth International Fuzzy Systems Association World Congress 93
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    • pp.1051-1054
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    • 1993
  • The International Atomic Energy Agency's Statute in Article III.A.5 allows it“to establish and administer safeguards designed to ensure that special fissionable and other materials, services, equipment, facilities and information made available by the Agency or at its request or under its supervision or control are not used in such a way as to further any military purpose; and to apply safeguards, at the request of the parties, to any bilateral or multilateral arrangement, or at the request of a State, to any of that State's activities in the field of atomic energy”. Safeguards are essentially a technical means of verifying the fulfilment of political obligations undertaken by States and given a legal force in international agreements relating to the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. The main political objectives are: to assure the international community that States are complying with their non-proliferation and other peaceful undertakings; and to deter (a) the diversion of afeguarded nuclear materials to the production of nuclear explosives or for military purposes and (b) the misuse of safeguarded facilities with the aim of producing unsafeguarded nuclear material. It is clear that no international safeguards system can physically prevent diversion. The IAEA safeguards system is basically a verification measure designed to provide assurance in those cases in which diversion has not occurred. Verification is accomplished by two basic means: material accountancy and containment and surveillance measures. Nuclear material accountancy is the fundamental IAEA safeguards mechanism, while containment and surveillance serve as important complementary measures. Material accountancy refers to a collection of measurements and other determinations which enable the State and the Agency to maintain a current picture of the location and movement of nuclear material into and out of material balance areas, i. e. areas where all material entering or leaving is measurab e. A containment measure is one that is designed by taking advantage of structural characteristics, such as containers, tanks or pipes, etc. To establish the physical integrity of an area or item by preventing the undetected movement of nuclear material or equipment. Such measures involve the application of tamper-indicating or surveillance devices. Surveillance refers to both human and instrumental observation aimed at indicating the movement of nuclear material. The verification process consists of three over-lapping elements: (a) Provision by the State of information such as - design information describing nuclear installations; - accounting reports listing nuclear material inventories, receipts and shipments; - documents amplifying and clarifying reports, as applicable; - notification of international transfers of nuclear material. (b) Collection by the IAEA of information through inspection activities such as - verification of design information - examination of records and repo ts - measurement of nuclear material - examination of containment and surveillance measures - follow-up activities in case of unusual findings. (c) Evaluation of the information provided by the State and of that collected by inspectors to determine the completeness, accuracy and validity of the information provided by the State and to resolve any anomalies and discrepancies. To design an effective verification system, one must identify possible ways and means by which nuclear material could be diverted from peaceful uses, including means to conceal such diversions. These theoretical ways and means, which have become known as diversion strategies, are used as one of the basic inputs for the development of safeguards procedures, equipment and instrumentation. For analysis of implementation strategy purposes, it is assumed that non-compliance cannot be excluded a priori and that consequently there is a low but non-zero probability that a diversion could be attempted in all safeguards ituations. An important element of diversion strategies is the identification of various possible diversion paths; the amount, type and location of nuclear material involved, the physical route and conversion of the material that may take place, rate of removal and concealment methods, as appropriate. With regard to the physical route and conversion of nuclear material the following main categories may be considered: - unreported removal of nuclear material from an installation or during transit - unreported introduction of nuclear material into an installation - unreported transfer of nuclear material from one material balance area to another - unreported production of nuclear material, e. g. enrichment of uranium or production of plutonium - undeclared uses of the material within the installation. With respect to the amount of nuclear material that might be diverted in a given time (the diversion rate), the continuum between the following two limiting cases is cons dered: - one significant quantity or more in a short time, often known as abrupt diversion; and - one significant quantity or more per year, for example, by accumulation of smaller amounts each time to add up to a significant quantity over a period of one year, often called protracted diversion. Concealment methods may include: - restriction of access of inspectors - falsification of records, reports and other material balance areas - replacement of nuclear material, e. g. use of dummy objects - falsification of measurements or of their evaluation - interference with IAEA installed equipment.As a result of diversion and its concealment or other actions, anomalies will occur. All reasonable diversion routes, scenarios/strategies and concealment methods have to be taken into account in designing safeguards implementation strategies so as to provide sufficient opportunities for the IAEA to observe such anomalies. The safeguards approach for each facility will make a different use of these procedures, equipment and instrumentation according to the various diversion strategies which could be applicable to that facility and according to the detection and inspection goals which are applied. Postulated pathways sets of scenarios comprise those elements of diversion strategies which might be carried out at a facility or across a State's fuel cycle with declared or undeclared activities. All such factors, however, contain a degree of fuzziness that need a human judgment to make the ultimate conclusion that all material is being used for peaceful purposes. Safeguards has been traditionally based on verification of declared material and facilities using material accountancy as a fundamental measure. The strength of material accountancy is based on the fact that it allows to detect any diversion independent of the diversion route taken. Material accountancy detects a diversion after it actually happened and thus is powerless to physically prevent it and can only deter by the risk of early detection any contemplation by State authorities to carry out a diversion. Recently the IAEA has been faced with new challenges. To deal with these, various measures are being reconsidered to strengthen the safeguards system such as enhanced assessment of the completeness of the State's initial declaration of nuclear material and installations under its jurisdiction enhanced monitoring and analysis of open information and analysis of open information that may indicate inconsistencies with the State's safeguards obligations. Precise information vital for such enhanced assessments and analyses is normally not available or, if available, difficult and expensive collection of information would be necessary. Above all, realistic appraisal of truth needs sound human judgment.

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