Seminar
Division of Advanced Nuclear Engineering
DANE’s Regular Seminar
2022-11-10 10:51
2,545
<p style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 10pt; font-family: "맑은 고딕"; text-align: justify;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: 나눔고딕, serif, EmojiFont; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: black;">▶<span lang="en-US" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;"> Date: </span></span><b><span lang="en-US" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: 나눔고딕, serif, EmojiFont; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">2022. 11. 10(THU)</span></b><span lang="en-US" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: 나눔고딕, serif, EmojiFont; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;"></span></p><p style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 10pt; font-family: "맑은 고딕"; text-align: justify;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: 나눔고딕, serif, EmojiFont; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;">▶<span lang="en-US" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;"> Time: <b><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">4:30 ~ 5:30 PM</span></b></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 10pt; font-family: "맑은 고딕"; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: 나눔고딕, serif, EmojiFont; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;">▶<span lang="en-US" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;"> </span></span></b><span lang="en-US" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: 나눔고딕, serif, EmojiFont; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;">Venue :<b> Online(ZOOM)</b></span></p><p style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 10pt; font-family: "맑은 고딕"; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="en-US" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: 나눔고딕, serif, EmojiFont; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: black;"> </span></b><span lang="en-US" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2076815786?pwd=UUNMbldJSjBlcXpEVUtHNzJPNmNZdz09" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-safelink="true" data-linkindex="0" id="LPlnk713725" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: 나눔고딕, serif, EmojiFont; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: black;">Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2076815786?pwd=UUNMbldJSjBlcXpEVUtHNzJPNmNZdz09</span></a></span><b><u><span lang="en-US" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: 나눔고딕, serif, EmojiFont; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: black;"></span></u></b></p><p style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 10pt; font-family: "맑은 고딕"; text-align: justify;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: 나눔고딕, serif, EmojiFont; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: black;">▶<span lang="en-US" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;"> Speaker: <b>Prof., Seung Min Woo(Kyung Hee University)</b></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 10pt; font-family: "맑은 고딕"; text-align: justify;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: 나눔고딕, serif, EmojiFont; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: black;">▶<span lang="en-US" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;"> Title: <b>Study on the 5MW Graphite-moderated Reactor in the DPRK in terms of Proliferation</b></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 10pt; font-family: "맑은 고딕"; text-align: justify;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: 나눔고딕, serif, EmojiFont; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: black;">▶<span lang="en-US" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;"> Abstract:</span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 10pt; font-family: "맑은 고딕"; text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: 나눔고딕, serif, EmojiFont; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: black;">The 5MW graphite-moderated reactor in Youngbyon is one of the main nuclear weapon program facilities in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The Plutonium production capability using that graphite-moderated reactor has been analyzed. However, a graphite-moderated reactor was known to be capable of producing not only Plutonium but also Tritium. In 2017, the DPRK announced that they have successfully tested a Hydrogen bomb. Moreover, the IAEA reported in 2021 that the 5MW graphite-moderated reactor would be probably restarted to produce Tritium. Therefore, in this study, the Tritium production capability using the graphite-moderated reactor was analyzed using the MCNP code. For that, we modeled the TPBAR (Tritium-Producing Burnable Absorber Rod) and the unit-cell of the reactor core. The simulation results showed that significant quantities of Tritium and Plutonium could be produced simultaneously. This is sufficient to pose a significant threat to the security of the Korean Peninsula and the World. The strategy of disarmament and denuclearization of the 5MW graphite-moderated reactor was discussed at the end of this study.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 10pt; font-family: "맑은 고딕"; text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: 나눔고딕, serif, EmojiFont; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>