• 한국소성가공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소성가공학회 2004년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.109-113
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• 2004

Slitting device is equipment to separate spent fuel of 250 mm rod cut pellets and hull in order to supply required $UO_2$ pellets through the dry pulverizing/mixing device. For development of its device, We have analyzed slitting programs so that the existing device is modified an appropriate scale in the advanced spent fuel conditioning process. The results of the analysis, we added the automatic separation function of pellets and hull, After slitting. Also, we have concentrated on reducing the operation time so that the support and the body of a slitting blade could have been established in the single structure to be easily maintained. It is based on a design and manufacture of a testing device and we have performed an efficiency evaluation. We have analyzed the results of efficiency tests of the slitting device and get the specification of the slitting device. we complete the basic design of the slitting device by using of these data. Therefore, We apply to a basic data when manufacturing a slitting device.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.369-370
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• 2006

During demonstrations of a process conditioning spent nuclear fuels, it is necessary to transport and handle Spent fuel road cuts from Post Irradiation Examination facility to Slitting device in The hot cell. the spent fuel pellets which are highly radioactive materials are separated with its clad and are fed into the next conditioning process. For this, a spent fuel rod, 3.5 m long, is cut by 25 cm long which is suitable length for the decladding process. These rod-cuts are packed into the capsule and are moved to the ACPF(Advanced spent nuclear fuel Conditioning Process Facility). In the ACPF, Once the capsule is unloaded in the ACPF, Capsule is taken out one-by-one and installed on the decladding device. In these processes, the crushed spent fuel pellet can be scattered inside the facilities and thus it contaminate the hot cell. In this paper, we developed the specially designed transportation and storage device for spent nuclear fuel capsules.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2005년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1055-1058
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• 2005

In the ACPF(Advanced spent nuclear fuel Conditioning Process Facility), the spent fuel pellets which are highly radioactive materials are separated with its clad and are fed into the next conditioning process. For this, at the other facility called PIEF(Post Irradiation Examination Facility) a spent fuel rod, 3.5 m long, is cut by 25 cm long which is suitable length fur the decladding process. These rod-cuts are packed into the capsule and are moved to the ACPF. Once the capsule is unloaded in the ACPF, the rod-cut is taken out one-by-one from the capsule and installed on the decladding device. In these processes, the crushed spent fuel pellet can be scattered inside the facilities and thus it contaminate the hot cell. In this paper, we developed the specially designed capsule which prevents the pellets scattering and remarkably reduces the leading and unloading time of the rod-cuts.

• 한국압력기기공학회 논문집
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.134-140
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• 2016

The Control Rod Assembly (CRA) controls the reactor power by adjusting its position in the reactor core during normal operation and should be quickly inserted into the reactor core by free drop under scram condition to shut down chain reactions. Therefore, the drop time of the CRA is one of important factors for the safety of the nuclear reactor and must be experimentally verified. This study presents the drop performance test of the CRA which has been conceptually designed for the Proto-type Generation IV Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor. During the test, the CRA was free dropped from a height of 1 m under different flow rate conditions and its drop time was measured. The results showed that the drop time of the CRA increased as the flow rate increased; the average drop times of the CRA were approximately 1.527 seconds, 1.599 seconds and 1.676 seconds at 0%, 100% and 200% of design flow rates, respectively.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.361-370
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• 1993

국내 가압 경수로는 핵연료 재장전후 해당 주기 노심핵설계의 타당성 및 안선 제한치의 만족 여부를 확인하기 위하여 저출력에서 노물리 시험을 수행한다. 그러나 고리 3호기 7주기를 포함한 일부 저출력 노물리 시험 중 step 반응도를 삽입한 후에도 반응도가 서서히 증가하는 기이한 현상이 나타났다. 이러한 현상은 시험시 중성자속 준위가 낮고 노외 핵계측기로 비보상형 전리함을 사용하기 때문에 감마 background가 존재하여 생기는 것이다. 이로 인해 노물리 시험 결과는 많은 오차를 포함할 수도 있는 것이다. 본 연구에서는 반응도가 증가하는 현상을 정량적으로 분석하고 기준 제어봉 제어능 측정 시험을 모사함으로써 노물리 시험 결과의 오차를 줄일 수 있는 방법을 제시하고 이후의 노물리 시험에 적용하여 확인하였다. 또한 감마 background 준위를 산정한 후 중성자속 준위를 조정하여 기준 제어봉 제어능 측정 시험을 통해 감마 background의 영향을 받지 않는 중성자속 준위를 결정하였다. 결정된 중성자속 준위는 핵가열이 발생하는 중성자속의 3/10이다. 이것은 기존의 상한치보다 3배 증가된 것이다. 이 결과는 고리 4호기 7주기 및 영광 1호기 7주기 노물리 시험에 성공적으로 적용되었다.