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A Study on Seismic Probabilistic Safety Assessment for a Research Reactor

연구용 원자로에 대한 지진 확률론적 안전성 평가 연구

  • Oh, Jinho (Research Reactor System Engineering Team, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute) ;
  • Kwag, Shinyoung (Research Reactor System Engineering Team, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
  • 오진호 (한국원자력연구원 연구로설계종합실) ;
  • 곽신영 (한국원자력연구원 연구로설계종합실)
  • Received : 2017.09.26
  • Accepted : 2017.11.28
  • Published : 2018.02.28
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Abstract

Earthquake disasters that exceed the design criteria can pose significant threats to nuclear facilities. Seismic probabilistic safety assessment(PSA) is a probabilistic way to quantify such risks. Accordingly, seismic PSA has been applied to domestic and overseas nuclear power plants, and the safety of nuclear power plants was evaluated and prepared against earthquake hazards. However, there were few examples where seismic PSA was applied in case of a research reactor with a relatively small size compared to nuclear power plants. Therefore, in this study, seismic PSA technique was applied to actually completed research reactor to analyze its safety. Also, based on these results, the optimization study on the seismic capacity of the system constituting the research reactor was carried out. As a result, the possibility of damage to the core caused by the earthquake hazard was quantified in the research reactor and its safety was confirmed. The optimization study showed that the optimal seismic capacity distribution was obtained to ensure maximum safety at a low cost compared with the current design. These results, in the future, can expect to be used as a quantitative indicator to effectively improve the safety of the research reactor with respect to earthquakes.

설계기준을 초과하는 지진 재해는 원자력 시설물에 상당한 위험을 유발할 수 있다. 이러한 위험성을 확률론적으로 정량화하는 방법이 확률론적 지진 안전성 평가(seismic probabilistic safety assessment)이다. 이에 따라 지진 PSA는 국내외 다수의 원자력 발전소에 적용되어 지진 재해에 대한 원전의 안전성을 확률론적으로 평가하고 이에 대비토록 하고 있다. 그러나 원전에 비해 상대적으로 규모가 작은 연구용 원자로와 같은 경우에는 지진 PSA가 적용된 예가 거의 없다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 지진 PSA기법을 실제 완공된 연구로에 적용하여 안전성을 분석하였다. 또한, 이를 바탕으로 연구로를 구성하는 시스템의 지진 내력에 대한 최적화 연구를 수행하였다. 그 결과, 지진 재해 하에서 연구로에 발생할 수 있는 노심 손상 가능성을 정량화하였고, 현재 설계안과 비교하여 적은 비용으로 최대의 안전성을 확보하는 최적 지진 내력 분포를 도출하였다. 이러한 결과는 향후 지진에 대비하여 연구로 안전성을 효과적으로 제고할 수 있는 정량적 지표로 활용할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

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