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원전사고 후 광역의 방사성 오염부지 내 거주민에 대한 시간에 따른 피폭방사선량 평가 (Assessment of Temporal Trend of Radiation Dose to the Public Living in the Large Area Contaminated with Radioactive Materials after a Nuclear Power Plant Accident)

  • 고아라;김민준;조남찬;설증군;김광표
    • 방사선산업학회지
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    • 제9권4호
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    • pp.209-216
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    • 2015
  • It has been about 5 years since the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident, which contaminated large area with radioactive materials. It is necessary to assess radiation dose to establish evacuation areas and to set decontamination goal for the large contaminated area. In this study, we assessed temporal trend of radiation dose to the public living in the large area contaminated with radioactive materials after the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident. The dose assessment was performed based on Chernobyl model and RESRAD model for two evacuation lift areas, Kawauchi and Naraha. It was reported that deposition densities in the areas were $4.3{\sim}96kBq\;m^{-2}$ for $^{134}Cs$, $1.4{\sim}300kBq\;m^{-2}$ for $^{137}Cs$, respectively. Radiation dose to the residents depended on radioactive cesium concentrations in the soil, ranging $0.11{\sim}2.4mSv\;y^{-1}$ at Kawauchi area and $0.69{\sim}1.1mSv\;y^{-1}$ at Naraha area in July 2014. The difference was less than 5% in radiation doses estimated by two different models. Radiation dose decreased with calendar time and the decreasing slope varied depending on dose assessment models. Based on the Chernobyl dosimetry model, radiation doses decreased with calendar time to about 65% level of the radiation dose in 2014 after 1 year, 11% level after 10 years, and 5.6% level after 30 years. RESRAD dosimetry model more slowly decreased radiation dose with time to about 85% level after 1 year, 40% level after 10 years, and 15% level after 30 years. The decrease of radiation dose can be mainly attributed into radioactive decays and environmental transport of the radioactive cesium. Only environmental transports of radioactive cesium without consideration of radioactive decays decreased radiation dose additionally 43% after 1 year, 72% after 3 years, 80% after 10 years, and 83% after 30 years. Radiation doses estimated with cesium concentration in the soil based on Chernobyl dosimetry model were compared with directly measured radiation doses. The estimated doses well agreed with the measurement data. This study results can be applied to radiation dose assessments at the contaminated area for radiation safety assurance or emergency preparedness.

Prediction of radioactivity releases for a Long-Term Station Blackout event in the VVER-1200 nuclear reactor of Bangladesh

  • Shafiqul Islam Faisal ;Md Shafiqul Islam;Md Abdul Malek Soner
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제55권2호
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    • pp.696-706
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    • 2023
  • Consequences of an anticipated Beyond Design Basis Accident (BDBA) Long-Term Station Blackout (LTSBO) event with complete loss of grid power in the VVER-1200 reactor of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) of Unit-1 are assessed using the RASCAL 4.3 code. This study estimated the released radionuclides, received public radiological dose, and ground surface concentration considering 3 accident scenarios of International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES) level 7 and two meteorological conditions. Atmospheric transport, dispersion, and deposition processes of released radionuclides are simulated using a straight-line trajectory Gaussian plume model for short distances and a Gaussian puff model for long distances. Total Effective Dose Equivalent (TEDE) to the public within 40 km and radionuclides contribution for three-dose pathways of inhalation, cloudshine, and groundshine owing to airborne releases are evaluated considering with and without passive safety Emergency Core Cooling System (ECCS) in dry (winter) and wet (monsoon) seasons. Source term and their release rates are varied with the functional duration of passive safety ECCS. In three accident scenarios, the TEDE of 10 mSv and above are confined to 8 km and 2 km for the wet and dry seasons, respectively in the downwind direction. The groundshine dose is the most dominating in the wet season while the inhalation dose is in the dry season. Total received doses and surface concentration in the wet season near the plant are higher than those in the dry season due to the deposition effect of rain on the radioactive substances.

공급기지 부취설비 운영에 의한 천연가스 부취 농도 최적화 (Optimization of Odor Concentration by Operation of Small Station Odorizer)

  • 이승호;송택용;백영순
    • 한국가스학회지
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    • 제5권3호
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    • pp.36-44
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    • 2001
  • 부취 농도가 낮을 경우 안전사고 발생의 우려가 있고, 과다 주입할 경우 주배관, 정압 설비 등의 수명 단축 및 환경오염의 문제를 야기 시킬 수 있다. 또한 부취제의 물성상 일정량이 배관 등에 물리$\cdot$화학흡착 또는 반응을 통하여 손실되어 적정 농도 유지에 어려움이 있고 비경제적이다. 따라서 부취제의 농도를 적정하게 유지하는 것은 매우 중요하다 본 연구에서는 배관내 부취제 농도의 적정관리를 위해 국내외 부취 설비와 농도관리현황, 소규모 설비의 특징과 장단점을 분석하였다. 또한 소규모 시스템의 적용시 운영방안과 타당성 분석을 제시하였다.

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고속도로 사고다발지점 개선사례 경제성 분석에 관한 연구(안전시설물 중심으로) (A Study on Economic Analysis of Improvement of High Accident Locations in Highway(Focused on Safety Facilities))

  • 박제진;주재웅;이종철;하태준
    • 한국ITS학회 논문지
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    • 제7권2호
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    • pp.92-99
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    • 2008
  • 우리나라의 급속한 경제성장은 여객과 물자의 수송수요 증가 및 도시집중화를 가져왔다. 여기에 국민소득수준의 향상과 더불어 자동차는 없어서는 안 될 생활필수품으로 각광을 받고 있다. 그러나 자동차의 도로 교통 활동으로 인한 교통정체와 교통사고로 인해 국민경제에 대한 평가를 절하시키거나 감소시키고 있다. 이에 우리나라에서는 교통안전개선사업의 필요성이 대두되기 시작하여 개선사업을 실행에 옮기고 있다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 개선사업의 분석을 실시하여 첫째, 개선사업의 성공여부와 또한 성공적이었다면 그 효과의 정도를 분석하고 둘째, 개선사업의 효과에 관한 데이터를 공급과 개선사업의 개발의 필요성을 인식시켜주고 셋째, 정책입안자 또는 사업 관계자들에게 효과성이나 개선안에 대한 정보를 제공하고자 한다. 본 연구에서는 사고다발지점 선정에 관한 연구를 통하여 종합지수법에 의하여 선정된 각각의 사고다발지점에 대한 개선사업 전 후의 사고건수와 사고율에 의한 효과성을 분석하였다. 다음으로 선정된 사고다발지점에 대한 개선 전과 개선 후의 사고비용과 개선사업비를 년차별로 산출하여 경제성 평가를 실시하였다. 본 연구의 결과로 첫째, 개선사업 전 후의 사고선수와 사고율에 대한 효과성 분석을 통하여 개선사업 후에 사고가 상당히 감소하였음을 보였다. 둘째, 개선사업 전 후의 경제성 평가를 실시함으로써 안전시설물에 의한 사고다발지점의 개선사업의 경제적 타당성을 보였다.

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초급간부 군 상담모델 개발 연구 (Study on primary officer military counseling model)

  • 서선우
    • 융합보안논문지
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    • 제16권6_1호
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    • pp.75-83
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    • 2016
  • 병력관리는 군 사고예방은 물론 전투력 보존 및 발휘의 핵심이다. 그러나 예측하지 못한 시간과 장소에서 생각지도 못한 부대원이 사고를 유발하게 되면 경험 없는 초급간부들은 당황하며 어떻게 처리해야 할지 몰라 전전긍긍할 때가 많다. 뿐만 아니라 각종 사고를 예방하는 것도 군의 존립의 이유인 전쟁에서의 승리를 위한 전투준비태세 완비의 전제 조건이다. 이 막중한 임무의 최전선에 초급간부들이 있다. 그러나 전투준비를 위한 제반업무에 만전을 기하여야 할 시간도 부족한데 병력관리에 대한 상급부대의 지시와 요구되는 수준은 경험이 부족한 초급간부들에게 많은 스트레스를 주는 것이 사실이다. 그래서 초급간부를 위한 군 상담모델을 연구하게 되었다. 초급간부 군 상담모델을 적용하여 상담을 진행 하면 가장 신속하고도 효율적으로 상담대상에 대한 파악이 가능하다. 효율적인 상담은 깊이 있는 내담자의 이해가 선행되어야 한다. 누군가를 심층 있게 이해한다는 것은 많은 노력과 시간을 필요로 하는 행위이다. 그러나 초급간부들은 그러한 시간과 노력을 충분히 투자할 수 있는 여건이 미흡한 것이 사실이다. 그러므로 초급간부 군 상담모델을 적극 활용하여 선택과 집중을 통한 상담활동을 지속한다면 효과적인 상담 및 사고예방까지 가능할 것이다.

Positive Factors for Return to Work After Accidents: Health Awareness, Consultation with Doctors, and Personal Characteristics of Workers

  • Kang, Dongsuk
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • 제13권1호
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    • pp.32-39
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    • 2022
  • Background: Industrial accidents can determine the overall level and quality of the work environment in industries and companies that contribute to national economic development. Korea has transformed the country from an international aid recipient to a donor country, but it has ranked first among the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development member countries in the number of fatal industrial accidents. Little has been known about the policy effects in terms of the workers' insurance for their industrial accidents and rehabilitation. This study raises two research questions about the influence of workers' personal characteristics and vocational rehabilitation services on their return to workplaces. Methods: The study implements weighted logistic regression analysis using propensity score matching. This research utilizes the relevant dataset (3,924 persons) of Korea's industrial accident and insurance. Results: The findings show that the level of workers' awareness of health recovery and their counseling for rehabilitation by physicians had positive effects on their return to work. Environmental factors such as workers' job stability at the time of industrial accidents and the temporal effects of industrial accidents (e.g., the level of disability, their age) had negative impacts on their return to work. Conclusions: These findings have policy implications that the concentration of rehabilitation services for patients who have been mildly affected by industrial accidents would be effective in the short and medium term. The findings also highlight the necessity of ongoing policies about workers' vocational recovery with concrete evidence about policy impacts.

대전지역 토양에 대한 Cs-137 및 Sr-90 방사능농도 분포 조사 (A Study on Distribution of Cs-137 and Sr-90 in Soils around Taejon Region)

  • 이명호;이창우;홍광희;최용호;김상복;박두원;이정호
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • 제20권2호
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    • pp.123-128
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    • 1995
  • 대전지역 토양에 대한 Cs-137 및 Sr-90 방사능농도를 분석 하였다. 토양중 Cs-137 농도와 유기물 함량 사이에 일정한 상관관계를 보였다. 인위적 교란이 없는 미경작지 토양에 대한 Cs-137 및 Sr-90의 평균 방사능농도는 14.37Bq/kg-dry와 7.95Bq/kg-dry 수치로 핵실험에 의한 방사성낙하물 농도와 유사한 값을 나타내었다. 미경작지를 포함한 26개 지점에서 Cs-137/Sr-90의 방사능비는 평균 1.99 정도로 Cs-137의 침적 농도가 Sr-90의 경우 보다 두배 정도 높음을 알 수 있었다.

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Improving safety performance of construction workers through cognitive function training

  • Se-jong Ahn;Ho-sang Moon;Sung-Taek Chung
    • International journal of advanced smart convergence
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    • 제12권2호
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    • pp.159-166
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    • 2023
  • Due to the aging workforce in the construction industry in South Korea, the accident rate has been increasing. The cognitive abilities of older workers are closely related to both safety incidents and labor productivity. Therefore, there is a need to improve cognitive abilities through personalized training based on cognitive assessment results, using cognitive training content, in order to enable safe performance in labor-intensive environments. The provided cognitive training content includes concentration, memory, oreintation, attention, and executive functions. Difficulty levels were applied to each content to enhance user engagement and interest. To stimulate interest and encourage active participation of the participants, the difficulty level was automatically adjusted based on feedback from the MMSE-DS results and content measurement data. Based on the accumulated data, individual training scenarios have been set differently to intensively improve insufficient cognitive skills, and cognitive training programs will be developed to reduce safety accidents at construction sites through measured data and research. Through such simple cognitive training, it is expected that the reduction of accidents in the aging construction workforce can lead to a decrease in the social costs associated with prolonged construction periods caused by accidents.

Development of Self-Questionnaire for Internal Dose Assessment by Food Ingestion

  • JiEun Lee;Hyo Jin Kim;Yong-Uk Kye;Dong-Yeon Lee;Wol Soon Jo;Chang-Geun Lee;Jung-Ki Kim;Yeong-Rok Kang
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • 제47권4호
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    • pp.204-213
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    • 2022
  • Background: The accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant increased the level of anxiety related to the radioactive contamination of various foods sourced in Japan. Particularly, after the accident, the detection of artificial radionuclides in locally produced foods raised food safety concerns. In this study, the radioactivity concentrations and annual ingestions of 40K and 137Cs in food products commonly and frequently consumed by the general public were investigated, and the annual effective dose of each was evaluated. Materials and Methods: The 2016-2018 data from the Radiation Safety Management Report released by the Korea Nuclear Safety Technology Center was referenced for the evaluation of the amounts of 40K and 137Cs contained in food. Using the food-ingestion survey mentioned above as a reference, we selected 62 foods to include in our radioactivity concentration and dose assessment. We also developed a questionnaire and evaluated the responses from the subjects who answered the questionnaire. Results and Discussion: The radioactivity concentration of 137Cs was found to be close to or below the level of minimum detectable activity. Additionally, the annual ingestion of 62 foods was 294.77 kg/yr, the effective doses from 40K and 137Cs were 136.4 and 0.163 μSv/yr, respectively. Conclusion: Thus, the findings confirmed that the effective dose from 40K and 137Cs in food tends to be lower than the effective dose limit of 1 mSv/yr suggested by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) Publication 60. The questionnaire developed in this study is expected to be useful for estimating the annual effective dose status of Korean adults who consume foods containing 40K and 137Cs.

가스난방용 적외선 히터의 연소배기가스 특성해석 (Analysis of the Characteristics of Flue Gas in Infrared Mobile Heaters for Gas Room Heating)

  • 김영규;권정락;김청균
    • 한국가스학회지
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    • 제2권1호
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    • pp.66-73
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    • 1998
  • 본 연구에서는 부탄가스를 연료로 사용하고 있는 이동식 적외선 가스히터의 연소시 배출되는 배기가스의 농도수준과 특성을 분석하였다. 실험은 연소 챔버의 크기와 챔버의 온도를 고려하여 실험을 수행하였다. 산소결핍 안전장치가 작동하는 $O_2$의 농도는 챔버의 내용적에 관계없이 $18.3\%$로 각각 나타났고, 작동하는 시간은 내용적이 클수록 늦게 작동하였다. 밀폐공간에서 연소시 $O_2$$CO_2$는 선형성을 가지며, CO농도는 $O_2$$CO_2$의 발생수준과는 관계없이 연소가 시작된 10분 이후부터 그 발생폭이 불규칙적으로 크게 나타났다. 이들 결과는 가스 난방기를 실내에서 사용할 때 충분한 환기를 통하여 불안전 연소를 방지하고 $O_2$ 감소에 따른 질식사고와 CO에 의한 중독사고를 예방할 수 있다는 측면에서 대단히 중요하다.

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