• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제46권1호
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• pp.27-38
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• 2014

The Fukushima Dai-Ichi accident in 2011 has affected various aspects of the nuclear society worldwide. The accident revealed some problems in the conventional approaches used to ensure the safety of nuclear installations. To prevent such disastrous accidents in the future, we have to learn from them and improve the conventional approaches in a more systematic manner. In this paper, we will cover three issues. The first is to identify the key issues that affected the progress of the Fukushima Dai-Ichi accident greatly. We examine the accident from a defense-in-depth point of view to identify such issues. The second is to develop a more systematic approach to enhance the safety of nuclear installations. We reexamine nuclear safety from a risk point of view. We use the concepts of residual and unknown risks in classifying the risk space. All possible accident scenarios types are reviewed to clarify the characteristics of the identified issues. An approach is proposed to improve our conventional approaches used to ensure nuclear safety including the design of safety features and the safety assessments from a risk point of view. Finally, we address some issues to be improved in the conventional risk assessment and management framework and/or practices to enhance nuclear safety.

• 한국터널지하공간학회 논문집
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.659-677
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• 2022

수소는 차세대 에너지원으로 부각되고 있으며, 수소차(FCEV)개발 및 보급이 급속도로 이루어질 것으로 예상된다. 이에 수소차 사고에 대응하기 위한 대책이 요구되고 있으며, 수소차의 안전성에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 기존 실험 및 연구자료에 대한 분석을 통해 도로터널에서 수소차 안전성 평가를 위하여 국내 실정에 맞는 수소차 사고시나리오를 개발하였으며, 수소차 사고시나리오의 사고결과에 대한 위험거리를 분석·제시하였다. 수소차 사고시나리오에 따른 사고결과는 경미한 사고, 일반화재, 제트화염, 폭발로 구분되며, 각각의 발생확률을 93.06%, 1.83%, 2.25%, 2.31%로 예측된다. 표준단면(72 m²)의 도로터널에서 국내에서 시판되는 수소차량의 수소탱크제원을 적용하는 경우, 사고결과에 따른 위험 거리는 폭발의 경우 약 17.6 m (폭발압력 16.5 kPa기준), 제트화염은 약 6 m, 파이어볼 형성에 따른 위험거리는 최대 35 m로 분석되었다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제47권1호
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• pp.11-25
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• 2015

The accident at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in March 2011, caused by an earthquake and a subsequent tsunami, resulted in a failure of the power systems that are needed to cool the reactors at the plant. The accident progression in the absence of heat removal systems caused Units 1-3 to undergo fuel melting. Containment pressurization and hydrogen explosions ultimately resulted in the escape of radioactivity from reactor containments into the atmosphere and ocean. Problems in containment venting operation, leakage from primary containment boundary to the reactor building, improper functioning of standby gas treatment system (SGTS), unmitigated hydrogen accumulation in the reactor building were identified as some of the reasons those added-up in the severity of the accident. The Fukushima accident not only initiated worldwide demand for installation of adequate control and mitigation measures to minimize the potential source term to the environment but also advocated assessment of the existing mitigation systems performance behavior under a wide range of postulated accident scenarios. The uncertainty in estimating the released fraction of the radionuclides due to the Fukushima accident also underlined the need for comprehensive understanding of fission product behavior as a function of the thermal hydraulic conditions and the type of gaseous, aqueous, and solid materials available for interaction, e.g., gas components, decontamination paint, aerosols, and water pools. In the light of the Fukushima accident, additional experimental needs identified for hydrogen and fission product issues need to be investigated in an integrated and optimized way. Additionally, as more and more passive safety systems, such as passive autocatalytic recombiners and filtered containment venting systems are being retrofitted in current reactors and also planned for future reactors, identified hydrogen and fission product issues will need to be coupled with the operation of passive safety systems in phenomena oriented and coupled effects experiments. In the present paper, potential hydrogen and fission product issues raised by the Fukushima accident are discussed. The discussion focuses on hydrogen and fission product behavior inside nuclear power plant containments under severe accident conditions. The relevant experimental investigations conducted in the technical scale containment THAI (thermal hydraulics, hydrogen, aerosols, and iodine) test facility (9.2 m high, 3.2 m in diameter, and $60m^3$ volume) are discussed in the light of the Fukushima accident.

• 한국원자력학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국원자력학회 2004년도 추계학술발표회 발표논문집
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• pp.465-466
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• 2004

• 한국방사성폐기물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방사성폐기물학회 2008년도 학술논문요약집
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• pp.413-414
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• 2008

• 한국가스학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국가스학회 2002년도 춘계학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.41-45
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• 2002

• 한국철도학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국철도학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1096-1101
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• 2006

• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제24권7호
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• pp.863-869
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• 2018

최근 해상 교통 환경의 변화로 인해 해군함정 사고가 지속적으로 발생하고 있으며, 특히 2017년 미 해군 구축함 사고로 인해 심각한 인명피해가 발생하였다. 이에 본 연구에서는 해군 교육 자료, 해군함정 사고 재결서, 미구축함 사고 분석 보고서의 해군함정 사고사례를 이용해 해군함정 사고를 분석하고 시나리오를 구축하였다. 이를 위해 조사한 자료를 중심으로 함정 사고 현황을 파악하고 사고사례를 분석하였다. 사고재현 절차에 따라 사고사례 17건을 재현하고 해군함정 사고 시나리오를 구축하였다. 해군함정 사고 17건의 CPA, TCPA 및 PARK 모델 위험도 분석 결과, 충돌위험은 평균적으로 사고발생 5~6분 전을 기준으로 증가하는 것으로 분석되었다. 본 연구의 결과를 해군 사례 교육 및 시뮬레이션 교육의 시나리오 기초자료로 제공하여 해양사고 예방에 기여하고자 한다.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.159-165
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• 2014

For the hydrogen economy system being tried starting with the 21st century, the fields that was not dealt with so far, such as the safety measure for large leakage accidents, the safety problem at infrastructures like a hydrogen station, the safety problem in terms of automobiles depending on introduction of hydrogen cars, the safety problem in a supply for homes like fuel cells, etc., are being deeply reviewed. In order to establish a safety control system, an essential prerequisite in using and commercializing hydrogen gas as an efficient energy source, it is necessary to conduct an analysis, such as analysis of hydrogen accident examples, clarification of physical mechanisms, qualitative and quantitative evaluation of safety, development of accident interception technologies, etc. This study prepared scenarios of hydrogen gas leakage that can happen at hydrogen stations, and predicted damage when hydrogen leaks by using PHAST for this.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제60권6호
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• pp.433-440
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• 2023

This study aims to establish safety zones for bunkering operations of hydrogen propulsion ships in coastal areas through risk assessment and evaluate their validity. Using a 350 kW-class ferry operating in Busan Port as the subject of analysis, with quantitative risk assessment based on accident consequence and frequency analysis, along with a social risk assessment considering population density. The results of the risk assessment indicate that all scenarios were within acceptable risk criteria and ALARP region. The most critical accident scenarios involve complete hose rupture during bunkering, resulting in jet flames (Frequency: 2.76E-06, Fatalities: 9.81) and vapor cloud explosions (Frequency: 1.33E-08, Fatalities: 14.24). For the recommended safety zone criteria in the 6% hose cross-sectional area leakage scenario, It could be appropriate criteria considering overall risk level and safety zones criteria for hydrogen vehicle refueling stations. This research contributes to establishing safety zone for bunkering operations of hydrogen propulsion ships through risk assessment and provides valuable technical guidelines.