• 제목/요약/키워드: Spent fuel pool

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조밀화된 사용후 핵연료 저장조에서의 국부 비등에 관한 연구 (A Study on the Local Boiling of the Consolidated Spent Fuel Storage Pool)

  • Lee, Chang-Ju;Lee, Kun-Jai
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제25권1호
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    • pp.8-19
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    • 1993
  • 강제순환 냉각상실사고시 조밀화된 저장계통의 사용후 핵연료에서 생성된 붕괴열의 제거를 확인하기 위한 자연순환 해석모델이 개발되었다 채택된 수치기법은 ADI방법에 근거하였다. 사용후 핵연료의 붕괴열 생성율은 ANS-79 붕괴열 모델에 따라 계산되었으며, 보수적인 붕괴열 생성량 입력을 위해 chopped sine곡선에 따른 비균일 표면열속이 가정되었다. 저장조내 국부비등의 발생 가능성을 조사하기 위해서 민감도분석이 수행되었으며, 이는 핵연료간 거리 비, 열 생성량 및 핵연료 봉 반지름 등의 여러 변수를 변경시킴으로서 이루어졌다. 이 모델의 적용결과는 적절한 냉각시간 후의 조밀화된 사용후 핵연료 다발을 통한 자연대류 유량이 안전하고 효과적인 방식으로 저장조의 온도준위를 조절할 수 있음을 보여주고 있으며, 또한 사용후 핵연료봉 재배치를 위한 냉각시간에 관한 허용기준이 얻어졌다.

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Managing the Back-end of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Lessons for New and Emerging Nuclear Power Users From the United States, South Korea and Taiwan

  • Newman, Andrew
    • 방사성폐기물학회지
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    • 제19권4호
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    • pp.435-446
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    • 2021
  • This article examines the consequences of a significant spent fuel management decision or event in the United States, South Korea and Taiwan. For the United States, it is the financial impact of the Department of Energy's inability to take possession of spent fuel from commercial nuclear power companies beginning in 1998 as directed by Congress. For South Korea, it is the potential financial and socioeconomic impact of the successful construction, licensing and operation of a low and intermediate level waste disposal facility on the siting of a spent fuel/high level waste repository. For Taiwan, it is the operational impact of the Kuosheng 1 reactor running out of space in its spent fuel pool. From these, it draws six broad lessons other countries new to, or preparing for, nuclear energy production might take from these experiences. These include conservative planning, treating the back-end of the fuel cycle holistically and building trust through a step-by-step approach to waste disposal.

Criticality effect according to axial burnup profiles in PWR burnup credit analysis

  • Kim, Kiyoung;Hong, Junhee
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제51권6호
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    • pp.1708-1714
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of the critical evaluation of the spent fuel pool (SFP) is to verify that the maximum effective multiplication factor ($K_{eff}$) is less than the critical safety limit at 100% stored condition of the spent fuel with the maximum reactivity. At nuclear power plants, the storage standard of spent fuel, ie, the loading curve, is established to prevent criticality from being generated in SFP. Here, the loading curve refers to a graph showing the minimum discharged burnup versus the initial enrichment of spent fuel. Recently, US NRC proposed the new critical safety assessment guideline (DSS-ISG-2010-01, Revision 0) of PWR SFPs and most of utilities in US is following it. Of course, the licensed criterion of the maximum effective multiplication factor of SFP remains unchanged and it should be less than 0.95 from the 95% probability and the 95% confidence level. However, the new guideline is including the new evaluation methodologies like the application of the axial burnup profile, the validation of depletion and criticality code, and trend analysis. Among the new evaluation methodologies, the most important factor that affects $K_{eff}$ is the axial burnup profile of spent fuel. US NRC recommends to consider the axial burnup profiles presented in NUREG-6801 in criticality analysis. In this paper, criticality effect was evaluated considering three profiles, respectively: i) Axial burnup profiles presented in NUREG-6801. ii) Representative PWR axial burnup profile. iii) Uniform axial burnup profile. As the result, the case applying the axial burnup profiles presented in NUREG-6801 showed the highest $K_{eff}$ among three cases. Therefore, we need to introduce a new methodology because it can be issued if the axial burnup profiles presented in NUREG/CR-6801 are applied to the domestic nuclear power plants without any other consideration.

조밀화 핵연료 집합체 저장에 의한 울진 1&2호기의 사용후 핵연료 저장조 정화능력 해석 (Analysis of Water Purification Capability of the Spent Fuel Storage Pool Using Consolidated Fuel Storage in Uljin 1&2)

  • Lim, Chae-Joon;Park, Goon-Cherl;Chung, Chang-Hyun
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제22권2호
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    • pp.83-94
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    • 1990
  • 울진 1&2호기의 사용후 핵연료 중간저장을 위한 기존 저장조용량확장 방안으로서 maximum density rack (MDR)에 consolidated fuel을 저 장하여 현 9/3 노심에서 32/3으로 확장할 경우 방사능 농도가 적정기준 이하로 유지될 수 있는지 여부를 분석하였다. 이를 위해 본 연구에서는 정화계통의 연속적 운전방식과 주기적 운전방식에 대한 저장용수중의 방사능 농도계산을 위한 두 가지 계산 모델을 만들어 상호비교 하였다. 이 결과 두 경우 모두 32/3 노심저장에 대하여 기존 정화계통으로는 기준치인 5$\times$1-$^{-4}$ $\mu$Ci/ml이하로 유지시킬 수 없었다. 따라서 기존의 시설변경이 불가피하며 그 방안으로 사용후 핵연료 저장조에서의 양이온 탈염기 수를 증가시키는 방법이 타당한 것으로 나타났다.

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영상처리기술에 의한 사용후핵연료 집합체의 제원 측정 (Dimensional Measurement of Spent Fuel Assemblies Using Image Processing Technique)

  • 구대서;박성원
    • 비파괴검사학회지
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    • 제22권1호
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    • pp.9-13
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    • 2002
  • 수중에서 사용후 핵연료 제원측정 시험의 효율성을 높이고 측정오차를 줄이기 위하여 수중 영상측정방법을 개발하였다. 이 시스템의 모의 핵연료봉 직경 및 길이 측정치는 실제값 기준으로 할 때, 각각 $-0.24{\pm}0.03mm,\;0.34{\pm}0.06mm$이고 측정 최대오차는 각각 -0.3mm 및 0.4mm이내였다. 실제 사용후핵연료에 대한 수중 제원측정결과 고리원자력 2호기에서 2주기 동안 연소한 핵연료 집합체 J44의 핵연료봉 직경은 설계치 기준으로 할 때 핵연료봉 상 하단부 직경은 2.0%, 중앙부의 직경은 3.0% 정도 감소하였으나 핵연료봉의 길이는 0.4% 정도 신장하였다. 고리원자력 1호기에서 3주기 동안 연소한 핵연료 집합체 F02의 핵연료봉의 직경 및 길이는 핵연료 집합체 J44의 결과와 비슷한 경향을 나타내었다.

Simple analytical method for predicting the sloshing motion in a rectangular pool

  • Park, Won Man;Choi, Dae Kyung;Kim, Kyungsoo;Son, Sung Man;Oh, Se Hong;Lee, Kang Hee;Kang, Heung Seok;Choi, Choengryul
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제52권5호
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    • pp.947-955
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    • 2020
  • Predicting the sloshing motion of a coolant during a seismic assessment of a rectangular spent fuel pool is of critical concern. Linear theory, which provides a simple analytical method, has been used to predict the sloshing motion in rectangular pools and tanks. However, this theory is not suitable for the high-frequency excitation problem. In this study, the authors developed a simple analytical method for predicting the sloshing motion in a rectangular pool for a wide range of excitation frequencies. The correlation among the linear theory parameters, influencing on excitation and convective waves, and the excitation frequency is investigated. Sloshing waves in a rectangular pool with several liquid heights are predicted using the original linear theory, a modified linear theory and computational fluid dynamics analysis. The results demonstrate that the developed method can predict sloshing motion over a wide range of excitation frequencies. However, the developed method has the limitations of linear solutions since it neglects the nonlinear features of sloshing motion. Despite these limitations, the authors believe that the developed method can be useful as a simple analytical method for predicting the sloshing motion in a rectangular pool under various external excitations.