Safety Assessment for LILW Near-Surface Disposal Facility Using the IAEA Reference Model and MASCOT Program

IAEA의 기준모델과 MASCOT 프로그램을 이용한 중저준위방사성폐기물 천층처분시설 안전성평가

  • Kim, Hyun-Joo (Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co., Ltd., Nuclear Environment Technology Institute) ;
  • Park, Joo-Wan (Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co., Ltd., Nuclear Environment Technology Institute) ;
  • Kim, Chang-Lak (Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co., Ltd., Nuclear Environment Technology Institute)
  • 김현주 (한국수력원자력주식회사, 원자력환경기술원) ;
  • 박주완 (한국수력원자력주식회사, 원자력환경기술원) ;
  • 김창락 (한국수력원자력주식회사, 원자력환경기술원)
  • Published : 2002.06.30

Abstract

A reference scenario of vault safety case prepared by the IAEA for the near-surface disposal facility of low-and informed]ate-level radioactive wastes is assessed with the MASCOT program. The appropriate conceptual models for the MASCOT implementation is developed. An assessment of groundwater pathway through a drinking well as a geosphere-biosphere interface is performed first. then biosphere pathway is analysed to estimate the radiological consequences of the disposed radionuclides based on compartment modeling approach. The validity of conceptual modeling for the reference scenario is investigated where possible comparing to the results generated by the other assessment. The result of this study shows that the typical conceptual model for groundwater pathway represented by the compartment model ran be satisfactorily used for safety assessment of the entire disposal system in a cons]stent way. It is also shown that safety assessment of a disposal facility considering complex and various pathways would be possible by the MASCOT program.

IAEA가 제시한 중 저준위 방사성폐기물 천층처분시설 기준 안전성평가 사례에 대해 MASCOT 프로그램을 이용하여 안전성평가를 수행하였다. 이를 위해 기준시나리오에 대한 개념 모델을 개발하였다. 지질계와 생태계의 연결매체인 우물을 동한 지하수 이동경로에 대한 평가를 수행하였고 생태계 모델에서는 구획모델을 적용하여 인간활동을 통한 최종 방사선적 영향을 평가하였으며, 다른 평가 결과와의 비교를 통해 기준시나리오에 대한 개념모델의 적합성을 조사하였다. 본 연구 결과는 구획모델을 이용한 지하수 유동경로에 대한 대표적인 개념모델을 총체적인 처분시스템의 안전성평가에 만족스럽게 이용할 수 있다는 것을 보여주었다. 또한 MASCOT 프로그램을 이용하여 복잡하고 다양한 이동경로를 통한 천층처분시설의 방사선적 안전성평가가 가능함을 보였다.

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