• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권1호
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• pp.324-329
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• 2023

Different types of deterministic solution methods were used to solve neutron transport equations corresponding to half-space and slab albedo problems. In these types of solution methods, in addition to the error of the numerical solutions, the obtained results contain truncation and discretization errors. In the present work, a non-analog Monte Carlo method is provided to simulate the half-space and slab albedo problems with Inönü and Anlı-Güngör strongly anisotropic scattering functions. For each scattering function, the sampling method of the direction of the scattered neutrons is presented. The effects of different beams with different angular dependencies and the effects of different scattering parameters on the reflection probability are investigated using the developed Monte Carlo method. The validity of the Monte Carlo method is also confirmed through the comparison with the published data.

• 한국원자력학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국원자력학회 1995년도 추계학술발표회논문집(2)
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• pp.574-579
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• 1995

Saturated boiling heat transfer experiment in a hemispherical narrow space is conducted using Freon-113 to investigate an additional heat removal capability through a hypothetical gap between lower head and degraded core. The narrow space of 1mm consists of a 124mm diameter heated stainless steel hemisphere and a glass outer vessel. Within the hemispherical narrow space large coalesced bubbles are produced and these bubbles rise in random direction, causing liquid flow in from the opposite side to fill the region. Such flow in random direction makes the flow field in the narrow space very chaotic and thus enhance heat transfer. The heat transfer coefficient is higher at lower angle and at higher heat flux. The present study shows that the liquid from upper region can effectively penetrate into the gap and augment the heat removal capability through tile gap.

• 대한수학회논문집
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.381-393
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• 2005

We consider a type of large deviation principle obtained by Freidlin and Wentzell for the solution of Stochastic differential equations in a conuclear space. We are using exponential tail estimates and exit probability of a Ito process. The nuclear structure of the state space is also used.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.554-560
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• 2021

크러드는 원자력 발전소 운전 시 핵연료 표면에 침적되는 철-니켈-크롬 등의 금속 산화물로 이루어진 다공성 물질이다. 그 두께는 수십 ㎛ 수준이다. 발전소의 냉각재상실사고 시 크러드 층은 핵연료-냉각수 열전달에 영향을 미치게 되어 원전 안전성 측면에서 그 영향을 살펴보는 것이 중요하다. 일반적으로 크러드는 열저항으로 인하여 핵연료 온도를 높이는 부정적 효과가 있는 것으로 알려져 있었다. 그 이유는 크러드에 의하여 핵비등, 최소막비등온도, 단상증기 열전달, 임계열유속, 막비등 열전달 등 2상유동 열전달 특성을 고려하지 않았기 때문이다. 본 연구에서는 다공성 크러드 물질의 물성치를 모델링하고 이를 국내 원전안전해석 코드인 SPACE에 탑재하였다. 크러드는 다공성 고체 물질이고 표면이 거칠기 때문에 최소막비등온도와 단상증기 열전달이 증가할 것으로 예상된다. 이에 최소막비등온도와 단상증기 열전달이 최대 피복재 온도 및 급냉에 미치는 영향을 평가하였다. 시험 계산은 기존 FLECHT-SEASET 재관수 실험 장치에 기반으로 수행되었다. 계산결과 최소막비등온도가 상승하여 급냉시간이 줄어들었다. 단상증기 열전달의 경우 약 20% 증가할 때까지는 최대 피복재 온도가 하강하였다. 크러드 층이 원전 안정성 측면에서 긍정적인 효과가 있음을 확인하였다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제52권4호
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• pp.742-754
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• 2020

Zircaloy cladding oxidation is an important phenomenon for both design basis accident and severe accidents, because it results in cladding embrittlement and rapid fuel temperature escalation. For this reason during the last decade, many experts have been conducting experiments to identify the oxidation phenomena that occur under design basis accidents and to develop mathematical analysis models. However, since the study of design extension conditions (DEC) is relatively insufficient, it is essential to develop and validate a physical and mathematical model simulating the oxidation of the cladding material at high temperatures. In this study, the QUENCH-05 and -06 experiments were utilized to develop the best-fitted oxidation model and to validate the SPACE code modified with it under the design extension condition. It is found out that the cladding temperature and oxidation thickness predicted by the Cathcart-Pawel oxidation model at low temperature (T < 1853 K) and Urbanic-Heidrick at high temperature (T > 1853 K) were in excellent agreement with the data of the QUENCH experiments. For 'LOCA without SI' (Safety Injection) accidents, which should be considered in design extension conditions, it has been performed the evaluation of the operator action time to prevent core melting for the APR1400 plant using the modified SPACE. For the 'LBLOCA without SI' and 'SBLOCA without SI' accidents, it has been performed that sensitivity analysis for the operator action time in terms of the number of SIT (Safety Injection Tank), the recovery number of the SIP (Safety Injection Pump), and the break sizes for the SBLOCA. Also, with the extended acceptance criteria, it has been evaluated the available operator action time margin and the power margin. It is confirmed that the power can be enabled to uprate about 12% through best-estimate calculations.

• 한국원자력학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국원자력학회 2002년도 추계학술발표회요약집
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• pp.73-73
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• 2002

• 한국원자력학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국원자력학회 2004년도 요약집 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.108-108
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• 2004

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제52권2호
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• pp.287-295
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• 2020

Group method of data handling (GMDH) is considered one of the earliest deep learning methods. Deep learning gained additional interest in today's applications due to its capability to handle complex and high dimensional problems. In this study, multi-layer GMDH networks are used to perform uncertainty quantification (UQ) and sensitivity analysis (SA) of nuclear reactor simulations. GMDH is utilized as a surrogate/metamodel to replace high fidelity computer models with cheap-to-evaluate surrogate models, which facilitate UQ and SA tasks (e.g. variance decomposition, uncertainty propagation, etc.). GMDH performance is validated through two UQ applications in reactor simulations: (1) low dimensional input space (two-phase flow in a reactor channel), and (2) high dimensional space (8-group homogenized cross-sections). In both applications, GMDH networks show very good performance with small mean absolute and squared errors as well as high accuracy in capturing the target variance. GMDH is utilized afterward to perform UQ tasks such as variance decomposition through Sobol indices, and GMDH-based uncertainty propagation with large number of samples. GMDH performance is also compared to other surrogates including Gaussian processes and polynomial chaos expansions. The comparison shows that GMDH has competitive performance with the other methods for the low dimensional problem, and reliable performance for the high dimensional problem.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제50권8호
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• pp.1298-1305
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• 2018

The use of System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions in the design of on-board data handling systems is an important step towards further miniaturization in space. However, the Total Ionizing Dose (TID) and Single Event Effects (SEE) characterization of these complex devices present new challenges that are either not fully addressed by current testing guidelines or may result in expensive, cumbersome test configurations. In this paper we report the test setups, procedures and results for TID testing of a SoC microcontroller both using standard $^{60}Co$ and low-energy protons beams. This paper specifically points out the differences in the test methodology and in the challenges between TID testing with proton beam and with the conventional gamma ray irradiation. New test setup and procedures are proposed which are capable of emulating typical mission conditions (clock, bias, software, reprogramming, etc.) while keeping the test setup as simple as possible at the same time.

• 대한수학회보
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.129-136
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• 2001

We consider a solution process of stochastic differential equation(SDE) driven by S'($R^d$)-valued Wiener process and study a large deviation type of estimates for the process. We get an upper bound in exit probability for such a process to leave a ball of radius $\tau$ before a finite time t. We apply the Ito formula to the SDE under the structure of nuclear space.