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ISSN : 1738-1894(Print)
ISSN : 2288-5471(Online)
ISSN : 2288-5471(Online)
심지층 처분을 위한 사용후핵연료 냉각기간 분석
Analysis of the Spent Fuel Cooling Time for a Deep Geological Disposal
Abstract
The purpose of the HLW deep geological disposal is to isolate and to delay the radioactive material release to human beings and the environment for a long time so that the toxicity does not affect to the environment. The main requirements for the HLW repository design is to keep the buffer temperature below in order to maintain its integrity. So the cooling time of spent fuels discharged from the nuclear power plant is the key consideration factors for efficiency and economic feasibility of the repository. The disposal tunnel/disposal hole spacing, the disposal area and thermal capacity required for the deep geological repository layout which satisfies the temperature requirement of the disposal system is analyzed to set the optimized spent fuels cooling time. To do this, based on the reference disposal concept, thermal stability analyses of the disposal system have been performed and the derived results have been compared by setting the spent fuels cooling time and the disposal tunnel/disposal hole spacing in various ways. From these results, desirable spent fuels cooling time in view of disposal area is derived. The results shows that the time reaching the maximum temperature within the design limit of the temperature in the disposal site is likely shortened as the cooling time of spent fuels becomes short. Also it seems that the temperature-rising and-dropping patterns in the disposal site are of smoothly varying form as the cooling time of spent fuels becomes long. In addition, it is revealed that a desirable cooling time of spent fuels is approximately 40-50 years when spent fuels are supposedly disposed in the deep geological disposal site with its structural scale under consideration in this study.
Spent fuel, Deep geological disposal, Repository layout, Buffer material, Thermal stability, Disposal tunnel/disposal pit spacing, Cooling time
사용후핵연료, 심지층 처분, 처분구역 배치, 처분터널ㆍ처분공 간격, 열적안정성, 완충재, 냉각기간
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