• 원자력산업
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• 제8권3호통권61호
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• pp.92-93
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• 1988

영국에너지성은 영국의 민간 원자력발전소의 플루토늄생산량, Sellafield 플랜트의 사용후핵연료의 재처리량 및 민간소유 플루토늄의 재고량에 관한 집계를 발표했는데 이렇게 자세한 자료가 공개되기는 이번이 처음이며, 이는 영국정부가 민간원자력산업계에 대해 그 실태를 공개하도록 권장한데서 온 결과이다.

• 방사성폐기물학회지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.387-419
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• 2021

The challenges facing companies and institutions surrounding civil nuclear decommissioning are diverse and many, none more so than those faced in the United Kingdom. The UK's Generation I nuclear power plants and early research facilities have left a 'Nuclear Legacy' which is in urgent need of management and clean-up. Sellafield is quite possibly the most ill-famed nuclear site in the UK. This complex and challenging site houses much of what is left from the early days of nuclear research in the UK, including early nuclear reactors (Windscale Piles, Calder Hall, and the Windscale Advanced Gas Cooled Reactor) and the UK's early nuclear weapons programme. Such a legacy now requires careful management and planning to safely deal with it. This task falls on the shoulders of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA). Through a mix of prompt and delayed decommissioning strategies, key developments in R&D, and the implementation of site licenced companies to enact decommissioning activities, the NDA aims to safety, and in a timely manner, deal with the UK's nuclear legacy. Such approaches have the potential to influence and shape other such approaches to nuclear decommissioning activities globally, including in Korea.

• 방사성폐기물학회지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.65-98
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• 2022

The nuclear legacy that remains in the United Kingdom (UK) is complex and diverse. Consisting of legacy ponds and silos, redundant reprocessing plants, research facilities, and non-standard or one-off reactor designs, the clean-up of this legacy is under the stewardship of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA). Through a mix of prompt and delayed decommissioning strategies, the NDA has made great strides in dealing with the UK's nuclear legacy. Fuel debris and sludge removal from the legacy ponds and silos situated at Sellafield, as part of a prompt decommissioning strategy for the site, has enabled intolerable risks to be brought under control. Reactor defueling and waste retrievals across the Magnox fleet is enabling their transition to a period of care and maintenance; accelerated through the adopted 'Lead and Learn' approach. Bespoke decommissioning methods implemented by the NDA have also enabled the relevant site licence companies to tackle non-standard reactor designs and one-off wastes. Such approaches have potential to influence and shape nuclear decommissioning decision making activities globally, including in Korea.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.93-105
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• 2012

균열암반의 등가역학적 물성을 수치해석적으로 결정할 때 2차원 및 3차원 해석을 비교하였다. 수직균열모델과 암반균열망(DFN) 모델이 균열암반의 형상으로 이용되었으며 3차원 모델으로부터 다양한 방향으로 2차원 모델을 절단하여 역학적 물성을 비교하였다. 본 연구의 지질데이터는 영국 셀라필드 지역의 자료를 기본으로 사용하였다. 직교균열모델에서는 컴플라이언스텐서의 변환을 이용한 해석적 방법이 물성결정을 위해 이용되었으며 암반균열망모델에서는 수치실험이 실시되었다. 2차원 모델에서는 균열이 항상 모델평면과 직교한다고 가정하기 때문에 탄성계수는 항상 3차원보다 크게 계산이 되었다. 2차원 해석에서의 포아송비는 3차원 해석보다 큰 값을 나타내는 경향이 있었으나 반대의 경향도 관찰되었다. 본 논문은 3차원 형상을 단순화시켜 사용하는 2차원 해석의 한계를 정량적으로 고찰하였다는데 의의가 있다.

• 방사성폐기물학회지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.307-319
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• 2022

60+ Years of nuclear power generation has led to a significant legacy of radioactively contaminated land at a number of nuclear licenced "mega sites" around the world. The safe management and remediation of these sites is key to ensuring there environmental stewardship in the long term. Bioremediation utilizes a variety of microbially mediated processes such as, enzymatically driven metal reduction or biominerialisation, to sequester radioactive contaminants from the subsurface limiting their migration through the geosphere. Additionally, some of these process can provide environmentally stable sinks for radioactive contaminants, through formation of highly insoluble mineral phases such as calcium phosphates and carbonates, which can incorporate a range of radionuclides into their structure. Bioremediation options have been considered and deployed in preference to conventional remediation techniques at a number of nuclear "mega" sites. Here, we review the applications of bioremediation technologies at three key nuclear licenced sites; Rifle and Hanford, USA and Sellafield, UK, in the remediation of radioactively contaminated land.