• 방사선산업학회지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.109-115
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• 2024

As a global effort for eco-friendly, the ship building is making great efforts to develop ships using low-carbon, eco-friendly alternative fuels. Nuclear energy, one of several eco-friendly alternative energy sources, is evaluated as an effective alternative for future ships by minimizing carbon emissions and securing economic feasibility with low power generation cost. However, although appropriate regulatory requirements are necessary for commercialization of nuclear powered ships, there are currently no regulatory requirements for nuclear powered ships in Korea. In this study, accordingly, domestic and international regulatory requirements related to nuclear powered ships were reviewed, matters to be considered in terms of safety when developing domestic marine nuclear reactor regulatory requirements were derived, and a licensing regulatory system for nuclear powered ships was derived.This study is expected to be used as basic reference data when developing regulatory requirements for nuclear powered ships.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.53-68
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• 1975

The world's nuclear powered ships have been reviewed mainly based on development of the marine nuclear reactor and the present trends of nuclear warships and merchant ships in the world. In particular, emphasis was on the four nonmilitary nuclear ships, Russian Ice breaker Lenin, American Cargo-passenger ship Savannah, German Ore carrier Otto Hahn, and Japanese Cargo ship Mutsu. They are the only civilian nuclear ships which have entered service at the present time in the world. The nuclear fleets in United States, United Kingdom, Soviet, and France were described in view of historical development and the present stock of the nuclear ships. The present projects and the future trends for the nuclear merchant ships in the main shipbuilding countries have been also discussed. The nuclear fission and reactor were briefly discussed in the beginning of this article.

• 한국국방기술학회 논문지
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2023

본 연구에서는 한국형 원자력 추진 잠수함의 도입 방안별 경제적 파급효과를 분석하였다. 이를 위해 원자력 추진 잠수함을 도입한 외국의 도입 사례들을 선행 조사하고 3가지의 도입 방안을 분류하였다. 그리고 도입 방안별로 경제적 파급효과를 분석하기 위해서 함정 무기체계의 개발 및 운영 경험을 보유한 전문가들을 대상으로 다단계적 설문조사를 수행하여 산업연관분석을 위한 산업적 연관성이 있는 소분류 항목을 정량적인 결과로 산출하였다. 이를 통해 도입 방안별로 부가가치유발계수, 생산유발계수, 고용 및 취업유발계수를 산출하여 유리한 도입 방안을 도출하였다. 본 연구의 결과가 한국형 원자력 잠수함 도입을 위한 선행연구 시 의사결정에 참고가 되기를 기대한다.

• Strategy21
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• 통권41호
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• pp.261-293
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• 2017

Nuclear power is a way of attaining an enormous amount of energy with relatively small amount of resources and after it has been introduced to the submarine since 1954, there are approximately 150 of nuclear powered submarine currently on a mission around the world. This is due to the maneuverability, mountability and covertness of nuclear submarines. However, there are other tasks, not only the high level of nuclear technology that are needed to be dealt with in order to construct nuclear powered submarine. The biggest task of all is to secure the enriched uranium. Accordingly, this research is about the way of enriching and securing the nuclear fuel that are used in the nuclear submarine with the characteristics, merits and demerits of the nuclear submarine. Due to the fact that the pressurized water reactor in South Korea is the reactor that was originally built for the development of nuclear powered submarine, many parts is designed to be suitable for the submarine propulsion. However, in order to apply this to submarine it is needed to consider additional requests such as the position of reactor, accident-coping system, radioactive covering, reactor output adjustment and ship's pitch and roll in order to apply this to submarine. Nuclear submarines have much higher speed based on the powerful propulsion in comparison with diesel-electric submarine and also have bigger loading area. Besides, there is no need to snorkel and they also have advantages in covertness with the multi-noise proof system. The nuclear technology in South Korea has seen the dramatic development since 1962 and in 1998 reached to the level that we have succeeded in the localization of nuclear plant and exported the world-class one-piece small-sized reactor (SMART) to UAE. To operate these reactors, we import the whole quantity of low-enriched uranium and having our own uranium enrich facility is not probable because of the budget and international regulations. With the ROK/US nuclear agreement revised on 2015 November, the enrichment of uranium that are available without special permission has changed up to 20%. According to the assumption that we use the 20% enrichment of Uranium on U.S. virginia class submarine, it is necessary to change the fuel after 11 years and it will cause additional cost of 1 billion dollars. But the replace period by the uranium's enrichment rate is not fixed so that it is possible to change according to the design of reactor. Therefore, I would like to make a suggestion on two types of design concepts of nuclear submarine that can be operated for 30 years without nuclear fuel change by using the 20% enriched uranium from ONNp.First of all, it is possible by increasing the size of reactor by 3 times and it results in the 1,000t increase of the weight. And secondly, it is by designing the one piece reactor to insert devices such as steam turbine, condenser into the inside of nuclear core like the Rubis class submarines of France.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권12호
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• pp.4335-4349
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• 2023

Nuclear marine propulsion has been emerging as a next generation carbon-free power source, for which proper passive residual heat removal systems (PRHRSs) are needed for long-term safety. In particular, the characteristics of unlimited operation time and compact design are crucial in maritime applications due to the difficulties of safety aids and limited space. Accordingly, a compact and long-term-operable PRHRS has been proposed with the key design concept of using both air cooling and seawater cooling in tandem. To confirm its feasibility, this study conducted system design and a transient analysis in an accident scenario. Design results indicate that seawater cooling can considerably reduce the overall system size, and thus the compact and long-term-operable PRHRS can be realized. Regarding the transient analysis, the Multi-dimensional Analysis of Reactor Safety (MARS-KS) code was used to analyze the system behavior under a station blackout condition. Results show that the proposed design can satisfy the design requirements with a sufficient margin: the coolant temperature reached the safe shutdown condition within 36 h, and the maximum cooling rate did not exceed 40 ℃/h. Lastly, it was assessed that both air cooling and seawater cooling are necessary for achieving long-term operation and compact design.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제20권9호
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• pp.142-149
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• 2019

지난 2000년대 초 우리 정부는 원자력추진 잠수함을 전략자산으로 확보하고자 하는 첫 시도를 한 바 있다. 원자력추진 잠수함의 획득은 척당 수조 원대에 이르는 초기획득비와 막대한 연간 운영비, 주변국을 포함한 국제사회의 동의, 전 국민적 합의, 전문인력 양성을 포함한 기술인프라 조성 등의 도전을 극복해야 한다. 미 해군은 1950년대부터 에너지부 중심의 정부 부처와 공동으로 원자력추진 함정의 획득을 위해 노력 해왔으며, 1982년에는 그동안의 노력을 통합하고 미래를 준비하기 위해 미 해군 원자력추진프로그램이라는 행정명령을 제정한 바 있다. 미 해군 원자력추진프로그램은 미 정부 내 원자력과 관련된 에너지부와 미 해군의 조직 구성, 관리자의 권한과 책임 등에 관해 규정하고 있으며, 관련된 전 국가적 노력을 통합하고 있다. 본 논문은 미 해군 원자력추진 프로그램의 구성과 성과를 분석하여 우리의 미래를 준비하기 위한 타산지석의 귀중한 지혜를 얻고자 작성되었다. 국력이나 군사력의 규모가 달라 일대일로 추종할 수는 없지만 그들의 과거와 현재를 잘 참고한다면 최소한 그들이 겪었을 시행착오에 투입한 노력과 시간만큼은 단축할 수 있을 것이다.