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A Mobile Robot for Remote Inspection of Radioactive Waste (방사선폐기물 원격감시용 이동로봇)

  • 서용칠;김창회;조재완;최영수;김승호
    • Proceedings of the Korean Radioactive Waste Society Conference
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    • 2004.06a
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    • pp.430-432
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    • 2004
  • Tele-operation and remote monitoring techniques are essential and important technologies for the inspection and maintenance of the radioactive waste. A mobile robot has been developed for the application of remote monitoring and inspection of nuclear facilities, where human access is limited because of the high-level radioactive environments, The mobile robot was designed with reconfigurable crawler type of wheels attached on the front and rear side in order to pass through the ditch, The extendable mast, mounted on the mobile robot, car be extended up to 8 m vertically. The robust controller for radiation is designed in focus on electric components to prevent abnormal operation in a highly radioactivated area during reactor operation, This robot system will enhance the reliability of nuclear power facilities, and cope with the unexpected radiation accident.

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The Status of Radioactive Waste Generation in HANARO (하나로의 방사성 폐기물 발생 현황)

  • 강태진;임인철;최호영;이용섭
    • Proceedings of the Korean Radioactive Waste Society Conference
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    • 2004.06a
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    • pp.377-385
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    • 2004
  • The quantity of radioactive waste generated from HANARO operation for the years of 1996 to 2003 has been analysed. It was found that the solid waste of $72, 999{\ell}$ and liquid waste of $263, 576{\ell}$ have been generated for the past 8 years. The amounts of Ar-41, I-131 and H-3 exhausted to the environment were 1, 225.6 Ci, 1.612E-2 Ci and 210 Ci, respectively.

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A Study on the Purification of Water-Pool in Irradiated Materials Examination Facility

  • Song, Ung-Sup;Lee, Jong-Heon;Lee, Hong-Gyee;Hong, Kyon-Pyo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Radioactive Waste Society Conference
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    • 2004.02a
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    • pp.42-50
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    • 2004
  • The pool $(3m{\times}6m{\times}10m{\times}$ in Irradiated Materials Examination Facility is generally used to transport irradiated materials between a moving cask and hot-cell. During the operation in the pool such as loading/unloading the cask, holding specimen and bucket elevation, water maybe contaminated by radioactive or contaminated impurities from irradiated materials. Then, it must be purified and filtered continuously to keep lower radioactivity than that of regulation prescribed by RCA Korea Activity in a part of radioactive contamination control. This paper described radioactive contamination distribution of water as transported materials, which is related to effective operation of purification and filtration system.

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Development of Decontamination Methods using Liquid/Supercritical $CO_2$

  • Park, Kwangheon;Moonsung Koh;Chunghyun Yoon;Kim, Hongdoo;Kim, Hakwon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Radioactive Waste Society Conference
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    • 2004.02a
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    • pp.106-113
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    • 2004
  • A major problem of nuclear energy is the production of radioactive wastes. Needs for more environmentally favorable method to decontaminate radioactive contaminants make the use of liquid/Supercritical $CO_2$ as a solvent medium. In removing radioactive metallic contaminants under $CO_2$ solvent, two methods - use of chelating ligands and that of water in $CO_2$ emulsion - are possible. In the chelating ligand method, a combination of ligands that can make synergistic effects seems important. We discuss about the properties of microemulsion formed by F-AOT. By adding acid in water core, decontamination of metallic parts, soils were possible.

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Adsorption Study on the Radioactive Liquids by Korean Vermiculite (한국산(韓國産) Vermiculite에 의(依)한 방사성동위원소(放射性同位元素) 흡착연구(吸着硏究))

  • Moon, Suc-Hyong
    • The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.51-54
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    • 1973
  • The use of ion-exchange resins for the treatment of radioactive wastes has many advantages, but thes eare rather expensive as compared with the Korean vermiculite. The Korean vermiculite has slightly different chemical constituents from the ones produced in other countries, and its physical properties might be applicable to the management of radioactive waste, in a small nuclear installation. The decontaminating effect of Korean vermiculite for the low-level radioactive liquid was investigated. $^{106}Ru,\;^{90}Sr,\;and\;^{137}Cs$ were utilized for the experiments. The removal rates by Korean vermiculite were calculated for $^{106}Ru,\;^{90}Sr\;and\;^{137}Cs$ and the removal rates increased as the weight of vermiculite in the exchange column increased. The decontaminating constants, $K_d$ of the Korean vermiculite for $^{106}Ru,\;^{90}Sr\;and\;^{137}Cs$ were 2.7, 69.3 and 263ml/g respectively. Through the results of experiments, the application of Korean vermiculite column to the treatment of low-level radioactive waste is quite feasible.

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Radioactive Waste Integrated Management System (방사성폐기물 통합 관리 시스템)

  • 송덕용;최성수;한병섭
    • Proceedings of the Korean Radioactive Waste Society Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.572-578
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    • 2003
  • In this paper, we present an integrated management system for radioactive waste, which can keep watch on the whole transporting process of each drum from nuclear power plant temporary storage house to radioactive waste storage house remotely. Our approach use RFID(Radio Frequency Identification) system, which can recognize the data information without touch, GSP system, which can calculate the current position precisely using the accurate time and distance measured from satellites, and the spread spectrum technology CDMA, which is widely used in the area of mobile communication.

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RADIATION SHIELDING EVALUATION OF IP-2 PACKAGES FOR LOW- AND INTERMEDIATE-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE

  • Kim, Min-Chul;Choi, Jong-Rak;Chung, Sung-Hwan;Ko, Jae-Hoon
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.40 no.6
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    • pp.511-516
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    • 2008
  • Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co., Ltd. (KHNP) developed new IP-2 packages to transport low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste (LILW) steel drums from nuclear power plants to a disposal facility in accordance with IAEA and Korean transport regulations of radioactive material. Radiation shielding evaluation of the packages was carried out to demonstrate compliance with the regulatory requirements for IP-2 packages of radioactive material. Dose rate limits of LILW drums contained in the packages were determined.

MOVING FORWARD WITH RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT IN THE UK

  • Atherton, Elizabeth;Mathieson, John
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.39 no.6
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    • pp.697-702
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    • 2007
  • Radioactive waste has been produced in the UK for many decades. Since the 1950' s much of this has been associated with civil nuclear power production and the nuclear weapons programme. There have been a number of unsuccessful attempts in the UK since the 1980s to deal with the waste and find suitable sites for its disposal. However, the UK Government has addressed this and in 2001 introduced the "Managing Radioactive Waste Safely" programme. The aim of this was to make decisions on the long-term radioactive waste management policy through stakeholder engagement. In 2006, it adopted a policy of geological disposal for higher activity wastes and following further consultations, is now at the stage of choosing how that policy should be implemented.