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A software tool for integrated risk assessment of spent fuel transportation and storage

  • Yun, Mirae;Christian, Robby;Kim, Bo Gyung;Almomani, Belal;Ham, Jaehyun;Lee, Sanghoon;Kang, Hyun Gook
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.49 no.4
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    • pp.721-733
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    • 2017
  • When temporary spent fuel storage pools at nuclear power plants reach their capacity limit, the spent fuel must be moved to an alternative storage facility. However, radioactive materials must be handled and stored carefully to avoid severe consequences to the environment. In this study, the risks of three potential accident scenarios (i.e., maritime transportation, an aircraft crashing into an interim storage facility, and on-site transportation) associated with the spent fuel transportation process were analyzed using a probabilistic approach. For each scenario, the probabilities and the consequences were calculated separately to assess the risks: the probabilities were calculated using existing data and statistical models, and the consequences were calculated using computation models. Risk assessment software was developed to conveniently integrate the three scenarios. The risks were analyzed using the developed software according to the shipment route, building characteristics, and spent fuel handling environment. As a result of the risk analysis with varying accident conditions, transportation and storage strategies with relatively low risk were developed for regulators and licensees. The focus of this study was the risk assessment methodology; however, the applied model and input data have some uncertainties. Further research to reduce these uncertainties will improve the accuracy of this model.

Development of an Environmental Control System for Agricultural Storage Facility (상온저장 시설의 환경 제어 시스템 개발)

  • 임종환;현명택
    • Food Science and Preservation
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.101-113
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    • 1997
  • Temperature, relative humidity and ventilation are closely related one another, and they are the main factors to be controlled for the environmental control system of a storage facility. Conventional environmental control systems do not consider the interrelationship between temperature, relative humidity and ventilation, which results in low performance and high energy consumption. To overcome the inefficiency of the conventional ones, it was developed an on-off control system based on the interrelationship between the factors. The usefulness of the system was illustrated with the results produced by a set of experiments in a real world.

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Preliminary Assessment of Radiation Impact from Dry Storage Facilities for PWR Spent Fuel (경수로 사용후핵연료 건식 중간저장시설에 대한 예비 방사선 영향 평가)

  • Kim, T.M.;Baeg, C.Y.;Cha, G.Y.;Lee, W.G.;Kim, S.Y.
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • v.37 no.4
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    • pp.197-201
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    • 2012
  • Annual dose at the boundary of the interim storage facility at normal condition was calculated to estimate the site area of the facility of PWR spent nuclear fuel. In this work, source term was generated by ORIGEN-ARP for 4.5 wt% initial enrichment, 45,000 MWd/MTU burnup and 10 years cooling time. Modeling of the storage facilities and radiation shielding evaluations were conducted by MCNP code depending on the storage capacity. In the case of the centralized storage system, the required site area was found to have the radius of more than 700 m.

A Study on the Architectural Planning of traditional herbal medicine distribution supporting facilities (한약재유통지원시설의 건축계획에 관한 연구)

  • Bae, Joa-Sup;Oh, Jong-Hee;Kang, Won-Pil
    • Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.53-64
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    • 2008
  • This study is the architectural planning of 5 distribution supporting facilities for traditional herbal medicine cultivated in the rural areas. The main function of the facility consists of storage, pre-treatment/processing, loading/unloading and the assistant function consists of inspection, office, exhibition/sale, technical equipment etc. The planning shows the modular plan and the section plan of the storage space reflecting the shape and size of storage container, the action radius of carrier and the possibilities of space lease. The total floor area of the storage is 3,192$m^2$ consisting of 27 space. The total floor area of the pre-treatment/processing is 1,488$m^2$ consisting of 7 space. The total floor area of the loading/unloading is 329$m^2$ consisting of 4 space. The total floor area of each facility storage is 8,284$m^2$ including of public space 2,170$m^2$. Also this planning shows the preliminary design, "fundamental model design" for 5 rural government BTL project. Therefore, this result of planning will be the guidelines of the RFP(Request For Proposal) for the private sector company interested in this BTL project.

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Case Study of Safety Management at Small Industry Handling Hazardous Chemicals (유해화학물 취급 중소기업 시설 관리실태 현황 및 개선방안)

  • Song, Eunhee;Lee, Donghoon;Cho, Youngho;Kwak, Dongho;Park, Kyoshik
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.21-29
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    • 2017
  • Small and medium industry facility handling hazardous chemicals was inspected and summarized. The inspection results were summarized in four categories such as hazards to process, storage, workers, and the others. The result was applied to further improvement of the facility. In conclusion, the industry intented to satisfy minimum requirement of regulation and they do not pay attention to keep maintaining the facility in integrity condition.

A Study on the Odor and Ventilation in Sludge Incineration Facilities (슬러지 소각시설 악취 및 환기에 관한 연구)

  • Seo, Byung-Suk;Jeon, Yong-Han
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.7-13
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    • 2020
  • Sludge incineration facilities are socially recognized as a hate facility. Therefore, a careful deodorization plan must be established. Therefore, the incineration facility must conduct research on odor ventilation. In this study, a odor diffusion simulation in an incineration facility was conducted and analyzed. In particular, research was carried out on carry-in rooms, pre-treatment rooms, and storage facilities for crops, which are expected to rapidly spread odor. As a result, ammonia 1.62, hydrogen sulfide 0.63, and acetaldehyde 0.73 were found in the transfer room. In addition, pretreatment rooms and stencil storage facilities were found to be lower than regulatory standards.

A Facility Design Model for 1300 Capacity School Foodservice with Adjacency and Bubble Diagrams (근접요구도와 버블다이어그램을 적용한 1300식 규모의 학교급식 시설 설계 모델)

  • Jang, Sun-hee;Chang, Hye-Ja
    • Korean Journal of Community Nutrition
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.98-112
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    • 2011
  • This study aimed to suggest a 1300 scale of a middle school foodservice facility floor plan which was compliant to the principle of HACCP, as well as ensuring food and work safety, and the flow of personnel and food materials. which consisted of 46 nutrition teachers and 6 experts, responded with a questionnaire on the relationship of functional area and space. Using their opinions, key principles for the design of the facility were single direction movement of food materials, customers and workers; minimization of the cross-contamination through the separation of functional space; and securement of customer-focused efficiency; staff-centered convenience and efficiency; and work and food safety. After the completion of an adjacency diagram, bubble diagram and program statement, the functional areas of a 1300 scale middle school food-service facility were allocated as follows: $9.9\;m^2$ for the receiving area, $56.1\;m^2$ for the pre-preparation area, $10.5\;m^2$ for the food storage area, $6.0\;m^2$ for the supplies storage area, $97.8\;m^2$ for the cooking area, $33.6\;m^2$ for the service area, $52.5\;m^2$ for dish washing area, cafeteria $410.5\;m^2$, $4.5\;m^2$ for the front room, for a total of $725.8\;m^2$. Expert groups have pointed to limitations within this model as there are no windows in the office for the influx of fresh outside air and a need for the straight line installation of steam-jacket and frying kettles on the sides of windows. This study can be useful as the guidelines for estimating the investment cost of the facility and placing the placement of functional areas and equipment in the renovation of the facility. It can be also useful data for a methodology of foodservice facility design.

A study on the application and construction of a rainwater storage tank in apartment complex (공동주택단지에서의 빗물저수조 설치 및 활용방안 연구)

  • Lee, Won-Yeul;Jeong, Sang-Min;Shin, Duck;Lee, Chuel-Hun;Han, Moo-Young
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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    • v.5 no.4 s.18
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    • pp.165-171
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    • 2005
  • Nowadays, a source of all water, which has been spent by a lot of people, is the rainwater The rainwater is directly relating human being' life. According to how to use rainwater. human being' life is abundant or poor. Due to the lack of underground filtration quantity, the water circulation of the city is discontinued and the underground ecosystem is destroyed. This study suggest that the unused underground space of building and temporary structure can be used into rainwater storage tank in the facility to use rainwater. Moreover, in this study, while the building is constructed, It is showed that the water used in construction can be replaced in the rainwater.

A Study on Safety Distance for Small Scale LNG Storage facility (소규모 LNG 저장시설의 안전거리 기준 연구)

  • Oh, Shin-Kyu;Jo, Young-Do
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.185-191
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    • 2014
  • In this study safety distance was investigated for small-scale LNG storage facilities in order to provide basic data for safety. The results are as follows; (1) For explosion pressure criteria, current criteria are reasonable, but water spray system should be recommended to LNG storage tank to ensure safety. (2) For criteria based on the results of the quantitative risk assessment, criteria applied to people are $5kW/m^2$ for radiation, LFL for dispersion, and 7kPa for explosion pressure. And criteria applied to facility are $37.5kW/m^2$ for radiation and 20 kPa for explosion pressure.

A Study on the Safety Improvement of Mixed Acid Storage Facility through the Accident Investigation Applicated by RCA (혼산 저장설비 사고의 근본원인 분석을 통한 안전성 향상방안)

  • Kwon, Nam-Ho;Kim, Dong-Joon
    • Korean Journal of Hazardous Materials
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.47-54
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    • 2018
  • Mixed acid is very reactive and highly corrosive. it has been causing many accidents in a electronic industry, a steel industry, and a chemical industry. Therefore, it is required that the high safety level for the acid storage facilities. In this study, we investigated the accident causes for resent leak accidents with Root Cause Analysis (RCA). The root causes analysed by RCA were categorized as nine divisions by the their characteristics. Furthermore, each nine divisions causes was applied to the PDCA model which are using at OHSAS 18001. It is suggested that the nine division with the root causes can be the essential items for the development of the safety management manual. It is helpful to the safety improvement of the acid storage facility.