• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제51권2호
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• pp.626-630
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• 2019

After several significant nuclear accidents, public attitudes toward nuclear energy technologies and facilities are considered to be one of the essential factors in the national energy and electricity policy-making process of several nations that employ nuclear energy as their key energy resource. However, it is difficult to explore and capture such an attitude, because the majority of prior studies analyzed public attitudes with a limited number of respondents and fragmentary opinion polls. In order to supplement this point, this study suggests a big data analyzing method with K-LIWC (Korean-Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count), sentiment and query analysis methods, and investigates public attitudes, positive and negative emotional statements about nuclear energy with the collected data sets of well-known social media and network services in Korea over time. Results show that several events and accidents related to nuclear energy have consistent or temporary effects on the attitude and ratios of the statements, depending on the kind of events and accidents. The presented methodology and the use of big data in relation to the energy industry is suggested as it can be helpful in addressing and exploring public attitudes. Based on the results, implications, limitations, and future research areas are presented.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제13권10호
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• pp.955-963
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• 2004

This study was conducted to find and explain characteristics of diverse social groups' attitudes toward nuclear power plant. 7 hypotheses were constructed and statistically tested. In order to test 7 hypotheses, both Nuclear Energy Attitude Scale and Environmental Attitude Scale were distributed and field surveyed on 839 respondents representing a diverse range of subject groups. The results showed that 6 hypotheses were statistically accepted while 1 hypothesis statistically rejected. Contrary to the first hypothesis, this test found that people in close proximity to the nuclear power plant had more positive attitudes toward nuclear power than those living in distance from the nuclear power plant. Males had more positive nuclear energy attitudes than females. Academic backgrounds were not related to nuclear energy attitudes. Environmental attitudes showed negative relationship with nuclear energy attitudes. While anti-nuclear citizen action groups had the most negative attitudes, nuclear power plant workers had the most positive attitudes among responding groups. Finally, university students majoring in nuclear engineering had more positive attitudes than those of religious studies.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제11권9호
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• pp.829-842
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• 2002

The purpose of this study was to design a reliable and valid Likert-type scale to measure nuclear energy attitudes of various groups. 8 tests were applied to the construction of a 26-item long form, a 12-item middle form, and a 6-item short form of the scale. Three scales were field tested on 760 respondents representing a diverse range of subjects. The 26-item scale appeared to be reliable, content valid and construct valid. Scale reliability and homogeneity were evidenced by 0.95 coefficient alpha and positive interitem correlations ranging from 0.18 to 0.74. The results of factor analysis and known-groups comparison revealed that this scale had high validity. Reliability of the middle form and short form were evidenced by coefficient alpha of 0.92 and 0.90 respectively. The long and middle forms were strongly correlated, r-value of 0.98 and the long and short forms were also highly correlated, r-value of 0.93. Consequently, long form, middle form and short form scales were evidenced very reliable and valid in measuring nuclear energy attitudes of various groups in general. They can be used for a variety of purpose of measuring and testing nuclear energy attitude.

• 한국원자력학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국원자력학회 2004년도 추계학술발표회 발표논문집
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• pp.1459-1460
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• 2004

An AHP-based framework for comprehensive comparison of several power technologies haas been developed. A questionnaire has been designed and is about to surveyed for extracting boty weight vectors and subjective evaluation values. The attitude of evaluator groups will be incorporated into these two types of quantification.

• 에너지공학
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.220-229
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• 1997

본 연구이전에 다양한 몇몇 연구를 통하여 울진원전 인근주민들에게서 '도우넛효과'의 발생가능성이 가장 크다는 판단을 기초로 본 연구이전에 수행된 몇몇 연구결과를 검토하여 울진원전 인근주민에게서 '도우넛효과'의 발생가능성이 있는 것으로 판단하였다. 이에 해당지역에 대한 직접면접과 분석을 통하여 '울진원전 인근지역'에서 도우넛효과를 활용한 시설입지의 가능성을 확인하였다. 향후 방사성 폐기물 처분장 입지선정에 있어서 '도우넛효과'를 활용한 사전연구의 유용함을 실증적으로 제시하였다.

• 수산해양교육연구
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.1236-1251
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• 2015

This study examined understanding and attitude of sustainable development(SD) of 38 college students in a nuclear power plant construction after education for sustainable development(ESD) through panel discussion. The results were as follows: First, after lesson 66% of students were expected that SD is possible if scientific technology is developed and a frugal life for the protection of environment is carried out. However, the remaining students regarded SD as an ideal concept, because they thought it is not possible to pursue environmental sustainability and socio-economic development simultaneously. Second, students' opinions in the evaluation of constructing a nuclear power plant in three aspects(environment, society and economy) before and after panel discussion were changed as follows; 1) After panel discussion, the objectors increased to 21% in economic evaluation, while the supporters increased to 11% in environmental evaluation. 2) Students majoring in engineering or natural sciences changed their opinions to agree in environmental evaluation because they considered a nuclear power plant safe and eco-energy. However students majoring in social science/business or liberal arts/arts changed their opinions to disagree in economic evaluation because they considered a nuclear power plant as high-cost energy when assessing danger-accidents cost, public consensus cost, operation and maintenance cost, and waste disposal cost. 3) This change of decision-making in students majoring in social science/business or liberal arts/arts after panel discussion was statistically significant(p<0.05). Implications of panel discussion as a teaching and learning method in ESD are also discussed.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제48권4호
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• pp.982-996
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• 2016

In this paper, new tethered aerial robots including roaming tethered aerial robots (RTARs) for radioactive material sampling and stationary tethered aerial robots (STARs) for environment monitoring are proposed to meet extremely-long-endurance missions of nuclear power plants. The flight of the proposed tethered aerial robots may last for a few days or even a few months as long as the tethered cable provides continuous power. A high voltage AC or DC power system was newly adopted to reduce the mass of the tethered cable. The RTAR uses a tethered cable spooled from the aerial robot and an aerial tension control system. The aerial tension control system provides the appropriate tension to the tethered cable, which is accordingly laid down on the ground as the RTAR roams. The STAR includes a tethered cable spooled from the ground and a ground tension control system, which enables the STAR to reach high altitudes. Prototypes of the RTAR and STAR were designed and successfully demonstrated in outdoor environments, where the load power, power type, operating frequency, and flight attitude of the RTAR and STAR were: 180 W, AC 100 kHz, and 20 m; and 300 W, AC or DC 100 kHz, and 80 m, respectively.

• 에너지공학
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.128-148
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• 2007

원자력 연구개발사업의 품질보증은 사업 고유의 속성을 반영하지 못하는 무분별한 품질보증요건의 선정 및 적용으로 인해 불필요한 요건이 포함되거나 필요한 요건이 배제될 가능성이 있을 뿐만 아니라, 이로 인한 자원낭비의 비경제성이 우려되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 원자력 연구개발사업의 속성을 반영하는 품질보증요건의 중요도 평가방법론을 제시하였다. 이 방법론은 기본적인 분석틀로서 QFD(Quality Function Deployment)를 활용하며, 계산과정에서 퍼지개념을 도입하여 인간 판단의 모호함에 따른 불확실성을 결과에 반영하고, 피설문자의 응답확신도를 활용함으로써 설문의 내용을 보다 유용하게 분석에 반영할 수 있다는 특징을 가지고 있다. 특정 원자력 연구개발사업에 제시된 방법론을 적용함으로써 그 실용성을, 다양한 시나리오 분석을 통해 유효성을 확인하였다. 시나리오 분석 결과에 따르면, 퍼지개념과 응답확신도를 활용함에 따라 기존의 방법론과 비교하여 품질보증요건의 중요도에 유의할만한 수준의 변화를 가져올 수 있음을 확인하였다. 또한, 사업 속성요인의 수준변화가 품질보증요건의 중요도에 직간접적으로 반영되고 있음을 확인하였다. 본 연구는 원자력 연구개발사업의 속성을 반영하는 품질보증요건 중요도 산출방법론이라는 점과 QFD의 새로운 응용분야를 개척하였다는 점에서 그 의미를 찾을 수 있다.

• 한국환경교육학회지:환경교육
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.120-133
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• 2005

This study investigated the changes of consciousness and ambivalent attitudes about the important environmental issues among the teachers who enrolled the environmental education training. Experimental and control groups were composed with 47 and 30 person, respectively. Environmental issues were constructions of sea-wall, nuclear power plant and dam. Cronbach alpha of the self-developed questionnaire was $0.6909{\sim}0.8992$. Score were made with 5 Likert scales for consciousness, and with semantic differential half scale for ambivalent attitudes. Almost teachers(94.0% and 97.1%) have above 10 years teaching career. Strangers in environmental program were 53.2%. After environmental training, teachers' consciousness was significantly changed to negative about the construction of sea-wall for the farm field and industry complex area(p=0.019), and about the construction of dam for disaster like flood(p=0.026), and for adverse effects of citizen by fog(p=0.042). They were also significantly changed to negative about the construction of nuclear power plant for economical energy(p=0.004)', no-emission of greenhouse gases(p=0.033)', 'alternative energy(p=0.000)', 'destruction of ecology(p=0.052)' and 'social fear(p=0.009)'. The consciousness of teachers who have the experience of environmental training, were significantly changed to negative about the construction of nuclear power plant. Scores of teachers' ambivalent attitudes were made lower in experimental than control group about the construction of sea-wall and nuclear power plant. After education training, they were made lower so much as -10.0% in control, but higher much as +4.4% in experimental, and severely higher much as 86.5% in teachers who had experienced the environmental training about construction of sea-wall. Their scores were made lower so much as -3.3% in control, but much as -6.4% in control.

• 자원ㆍ환경경제연구
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.853-874
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• 2010

본 연구는 국민들의 원자력에 대한 전반적인 인식 분포가 어떠한지 알아보기 위해서 설문조사 자료를 이용하여 잠재계층분석을 실행하였다. 잠재계층분석을 통해 응답자를 원자력에 대해 동일한 인식을 가진 몇 개의 집단으로 구분하고 각 집단의 특성을 분석하였다. 전국 성인남녀 1,025명을 대상으로 원자력의 청정성, 경제성, 필요성, 안정성에 관한 응답을 통해 응답자를 3개의 계층으로 구분할 수 있었다. 첫 번째 계층은 응답자 분포가 가장 높은 계층으로 원자력에 관해서 대체적으로 긍정적인 인식을 가지고 있지만 적극적으로 동의하지 않는 계층이다. 두 번째 계층은 전체 표본에서 1/4 정도 분포하며, 이 계층의 특징은 원자력의 청정성, 경제성, 필요성에 대해서 적극적으로 지지하는 계층이다. 마지막 계층은 국내 경제, 에너지 여건을 감안할 때 원자력의 필요성에 대해서는 대체적으로 동의하지만 청정성, 경제성, 안정성에 대해서는 부정적인 인식을 하고 있는 계층이다. 이 결과를 통해 국민들의 85% 정도가 전반적으로 원자력을 긍정적으로 인식한다고 말할 수 있다. 원자력에 대해서 부정적 인식을 나타내는 계층은 15% 정도 있지만 이 계층도 원자력의 필요성에서는 어느 정도 공감을 하고 있다. 본 연구를 통해 원자력 수용성 문제 해결의 시작은 원자력 시설 안전성에 확보를 위한 기술개발과 투명한 정보 제공을 위한 노력으로 안전에 대한 우려를 감소시키는 방안 마련에 있다는 것을 알 수 있다.