• 한국표면공학회지
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.62-67
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• 2001

Green technology is being developed up to a point that is feasible not only in an environmental sense, but also in an economical viewpoint. This paper introduces two case studies that applied $CO_2$ technology into nuclear industry. 1) Nuclear laundry : A laundry machine that uses liquid and supercritical $CO_2$ as a solvent for decontamination of contaminated working dresses in nuclear power plants was developed. The machine consists of a 16 liter reactor, a recovery system with compressors, and storage tanks. All $CO_2$ used in cleaning is fully recovered and reused in next cleaning, resulting in no production of secondary nuclear waste. Decontamination factor is still lower than that in the methods currently used in the plant. Nuclear laundry using $CO_2$ looks promising with technical improvements-surfactants and mechanical agitation. 2) $CO_2$ nozzle decontamination : An adjustable nozzle for controlling the size of dry ice snow was developed. Using the developed nozzle, a surface decontamination device was made. Human oils like fingerprints on glass were easy to remove. Decontamination ability was tested using a contaminated pump-housing surface. About 40 to 80% of radioactivity was removed. This device is effective in surface-decontamination of any electrical devices like detector, controllers which cannot be cleaned in aqueous solution.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권7호
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• pp.2386-2394
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• 2022

In this paper, smooth and notched bar tensile tests of austenitic stainless steel 304 are performed, covering four different multi-axial stress states and six different strain rate conditions, to investigate the effect of the stress triaxiality and strain rate on fracture strain. Test data show that the measured true fracture strain tends to decrease with increasing stress triaxiality and strain rate. The test data are then quantified using the Johnson-Cook (J-C) fracture strain model incorporating combined effects of the stress triaxiality and strain rate. The determined J-C model can predict true fracture strain overall conservatively with the difference less than 20%. The conservatism in the strain-based acceptance criteria in ASME B&PV Code, Section III, Appendix FF is also discussed.

• 에너지공학
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.203-212
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• 1999

한국은 선진국의 원자력 산업 침체와는 대조적으로 아직도 활발하게 원자력발전소를 건설 운영하고 있으며 앞으로도 이와 같은 원자력발전을 적극 고려한 전력에너지 정책기조를 유지하려고 하고 있다. 한국의 경제규모는 세계 10위권에 진입하려 하고 있으며 OECD에 가입하는 등 국가의 전반적인 위상이 향상되었으며 현재 국제 원자력 시장에서 한국은 매우 중요한 고객인 동시에 수혜적 입장에서 벗어난 잠재적인 공급자라는 점이 널리 알려져 있다. 그러나 한국의 원자력산업을 세계화하기 위한 기반은 아직 미약한 상태에 머물러 있다. 이는 한국이 원자력발전소를 도입하기 시작한 1970년대초 이래로 기술국산화란 산업적 측면을 강조하여 원자력정책을 다루어 오면서 국제정치 및 국제교역 측면을 중시하지 않았기 때문이다. 이러한 배경에서 본 논문은 한국이 국제 원자력 통상 분야에서 활동 영역을 넓히고 국제 원자력정책 결정 과정에 보다 많은 영향력을 행사하기 위한 전략을 제시하고 있다.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.97-106
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• 2013

Objective: The aim of this study is to investigate the attributing factors influencing team performance. Background: Technically, it is necessary that operators adapt themselves to computerized and advanced techniques to operate the main control rooms safely in nuclear power plant in Korea. The more main control rooms are digitalized, the more important for operators to have high team performance it is. Method: This paper analyzes team process through literatures review and elicits team performance shaping factor. Especially, the objective of this research is to elicit communication using common team performance shaping factors. Results: This study has found communication through team performance shaping factors in Main Control Room of the SMART. Conclusion: This paper can offer a starting point for team communication, which can use team performance shaping factor framework that are emerging in these new nuclear power plant. Application: As a result, I expect that the evaluation communication for MCR operator's team performance will lead the operating techniques in nuclear power industry internationally.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제47권3호
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• pp.362-379
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• 2015

In this study, Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) construction schedule delay risk assessment methodology is developed and the construction delay risk is assessed for turnkey international NPP projects. Three levels of delay factors were selected through literature review and discussions with nuclear industry experts. A questionnaire survey was conducted on the basis of an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and Relative Importance Index (RII) methods and the schedule delay risk is assessed qualitatively and quantitatively by severity and frequency of occurrence of delay factors. This study assigns four main delay factors to the first level: main contractor, utility, regulatory authority, and financial and country factor. The second and the third levels are designed with 12 sub-factors and 32 sub-sub-factors, respectively. This study finds the top five most important sub-sub-factors, which are as follows: policy changes, political instability and public intervention; uncompromising regulatory criteria and licensing documents conflicting with existing regulations; robust design document review procedures; redesign due to errors in design and design changes; and worldwide shortage of qualified and experienced nuclear specific equipment manufacturers. The proposed combined AHP-RII methodology is capable of assessing delay risk effectively and efficiently. Decision makers can apply risk informed decision making to avoid unexpected construction delays of NPPs.

• 방사성폐기물학회지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.507-514
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• 2018

기술집약적 분야 산업은 영토 내 가용할 수 있는 자원이 극빈한 국가의 주요 성장 동력으로 활용되어질 수 있다. 예로, 한국의 경우 원자력 및 방사선 기술 산업을 고도로 육성시켜 자국 내 에너지 문제의 해결과 원자력발전소 수출 등 국익을 얻을 수 있었다. 반면 기술집약적 분야 산업에 대한 잘못된 정부정책결정에 의하여 국가적 손해가 발생한 경우도 존재한다. 본 연구에서는 기술집약적 산업에 대한 잘못된 정부정책사례를 분석하여 3가지 요인을 도출하였다. 그리고 3가지 모형의 앨리슨모델을 복합적으로 이용하여, 사례분석에서 도출된 3가지 요인의 문제점을 해결할 수 있는 합리적 정책결정 모형을 개발하고자 하였다. 궁극적으로, 본 연구의 결과는 기술집약적 산업에 대한 합리적인 정부정책결정 과정을 위해 향후 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• 자원ㆍ환경경제연구
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.581-608
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• 2002

The electric power industry has played an important role in dramatic economic development in Korea and the electricity has constituted a critical factor sustaining the well-being of the Korean people. This study uses input-output analysis to investigate the role of four electric power sectors (hydroelectric, fossil-fuels, nuclear and non-utility) in the Korean national economy for the period 1985~1998, focusing on four topics: the impacts of electricity supply investments, the electricity supply shortage effects, and the impacts of the rise in electricity rates, and the inter-industry linkage effect. The overall results reveal that non-utility electric sector is superior in terms of the national economy-wide effects to other three sectors throughout the period. Finally, potential uses of the results are illustrated from the perspective of policy instruments and some policy implications are discussed.

• 한국건축시공학회지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.314-321
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• 2014

특수 플랜트 건설은 타 건설사업보다 체계적인 원가 및 공정관리가 요구되지만 이를 위하 반드시 필요한 현장 생산성을 구체적으로 분석한 연구는 이루어지지 않고 있다. 본 연구에서는 국내에서 건설중인 특수 플랜트 현장의 철근콘크리트공종을 형틀, 철근, 콘크리트로 나누어 생산성을 측정하고 생산성에 영향을 미치는 요인을 분석하였다. 생산성 측정결과 형틀공종 $0.54(m^2/man{\cdot}time)$, 철근공종 $0.06(ton/man{\cdot}day)$, 콘크리트공종 $1.98(m^3/man{\cdot}time)$로 나타났다. 영향요인으로는 형틀공종은 요일과 야간적업 유무, 철근공종은 야간잡업 유무, 콘크리트공종은 야간작업 유무와 콘크리트 물량이 통계적으로 유의게 영향을 미치는 것으로 분석되었다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제13권8호
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• pp.3570-3577
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• 2012

국가산업발전의 근간이 되며, 에너지 공급원의 하나인 원자력발전에 따른 일반인들의 위험도에 대한 연구는 원자력발전의 사회적 수용성 측면에서 매우 중요한 요소이다. 이에 본 연구는 일반인들이 인식하는 원자력발전과 방사선에 대한 사회적 위험 정도, 오개념 등을 파악하고, 인식 개선을 위해 요구되는 노력을 제시하기 위한 목적을 갖는다. 목적 달성을 위해 일반인 251명을 대상으로 인식을 분석하였다. 분석 결과, 일반인들은 원자력발전의 안전성에 대해 막연한 불안과 의혹을 가지고 있으며, 정부산하단체에 대한 신뢰가 낮은 것으로 나타났다. 연령이 낮을수록 원자력관련 정책결정에 기업이나 산업체의 영향력이 높은 것으로 인식하였다. 본 연구결과를 토대로 할 때, 일반인들이 가장 신뢰하는 대학 연구기관의 교수 및 과학자 집단을 통해 일반인들이 가지고 있는 오개념을 바로 잡고 내재적 인식변화를 모색해야 할 것이다.

• 방사선산업학회지
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.209-216
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• 2015

It has been about 5 years since the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident, which contaminated large area with radioactive materials. It is necessary to assess radiation dose to establish evacuation areas and to set decontamination goal for the large contaminated area. In this study, we assessed temporal trend of radiation dose to the public living in the large area contaminated with radioactive materials after the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident. The dose assessment was performed based on Chernobyl model and RESRAD model for two evacuation lift areas, Kawauchi and Naraha. It was reported that deposition densities in the areas were $4.3{\sim}96kBq\;m^{-2}$ for $^{134}Cs$, $1.4{\sim}300kBq\;m^{-2}$ for $^{137}Cs$, respectively. Radiation dose to the residents depended on radioactive cesium concentrations in the soil, ranging $0.11{\sim}2.4mSv\;y^{-1}$ at Kawauchi area and $0.69{\sim}1.1mSv\;y^{-1}$ at Naraha area in July 2014. The difference was less than 5% in radiation doses estimated by two different models. Radiation dose decreased with calendar time and the decreasing slope varied depending on dose assessment models. Based on the Chernobyl dosimetry model, radiation doses decreased with calendar time to about 65% level of the radiation dose in 2014 after 1 year, 11% level after 10 years, and 5.6% level after 30 years. RESRAD dosimetry model more slowly decreased radiation dose with time to about 85% level after 1 year, 40% level after 10 years, and 15% level after 30 years. The decrease of radiation dose can be mainly attributed into radioactive decays and environmental transport of the radioactive cesium. Only environmental transports of radioactive cesium without consideration of radioactive decays decreased radiation dose additionally 43% after 1 year, 72% after 3 years, 80% after 10 years, and 83% after 30 years. Radiation doses estimated with cesium concentration in the soil based on Chernobyl dosimetry model were compared with directly measured radiation doses. The estimated doses well agreed with the measurement data. This study results can be applied to radiation dose assessments at the contaminated area for radiation safety assurance or emergency preparedness.