Decommissioning of a nuclear power plant (NPP) generate large amounts of various types of wastes. In accordance with the Nuclear Safety and Security Commission Notice of Korea (No. 2020- 6), they are classified as High Level Waste (HLW), Intermediate Level Waste (ILW), Low Level Waste (LLW), Very Low Level Waste (VLLW) and Exempt Waste (EW) according to specific activities. More than 90% of the wastes are at exempt level, mostly metal and concrete wastes with low radioactivity, of which the concentrations of nuclides is less than the allowable concentration of self-disposal. The self-disposal or recycling of these wastes is widely used worldwide. More than 10,000 drums, based on 200 L drum, are expected to be produced in the decommissioning process of a unit of nuclear power plant. Due to the limited storage capacity of the intermediate & low level waste disposal facility in Gyeongju, recycling and self-disposal of EW are actively recommended in Korea. A variety of scenarios were proposed for recycling and self-disposal of decommissioning metal/ concrete wastes, and a computational program called REDISA was developed to perform the dose evaluation for each recycling and self-disposal scenario. The REDISA computer program can calculate external and internal exposure doses by simulating the exposure pathways from waste generation, thru transport, processing, manufacture, to the final destination of recycling or self-disposal. In this study, the self-disposal scenario was only considered for the dose evaluation. Many studies have been conducted to evaluate the exposure doses of the radioactive waste disposal sites. However, there have been few researches on dose evaluation for self-disposal landfills. In particular, the dose evaluation is important not only during the operation period, but also for a long period after the facility is closed. To this end, we developed a conceptual model for dose evaluation for post-closure scenarios of the self-disposal landfill of decommissioning metal/concrete wastes with reference to the methodology of IAEA-TECDOC-1380. The model incorporates three exposure pathways, including external exposure from contaminated soil, internal exposure by inhalation, and internal exposure by ingestion of water and food grown in contaminated soil. The duration of the dose evaluation is set to 100,000 years after the closure of landfill facility. Co-60 was selected as dominant nuclide, and dose evaluation was performed based on unit specific activity of 1 Bq/g. Exposure doses shall be verified for their application in accordance with the annual dose limit of 10 Sv/yr for self-disposal. As a result, the post-closure scenario of selfdisposal landfills have shown negligible effects on public health, which means that the exposures doses from transportation and operational processes should be considered more carefully for selfdisposal of decommissioning metal/concrete wastes.

A radioactive waste disposal facility needs to be developed in a way to protect present and future generations and its environment. A safety assessment is implemented for normal and abnormal scenarios and human intrusion scenarios as a part of a safety case in developing a disposal facility for the radioactive waste. The human intrusion scenarios include a well scenario which takes into account various potential exposure groups (PEGs) who use a groundwater well contaminated with radionuclides released from the disposal facility. It is observed that a pumping rate has a negative correlation with the biosphere dose conversion factor (BDCF) in the well scenario. C-14 is shown to be a key radionuclide in the well scenario, and a special model based on the carbon cycle is applied for C-14. For Tc-99, an adsorption coefficient should be adjusted to be suitable for the site. The safety assessment for the radioactive waste disposal facility is successfully carried out for the well scenario. However, it is observed that site-specific models needs to be developed and sitespecific input data need to be collected in order to avoid unnecessary conservatism.

CYPRUS is a web-based waste disposal research comprehensive information management program developed by the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute over three years from 2004. This program is stored as existing quality assurance documents and data, and the research results can be viewed at any time. In addition, it helps to perform all series of tasks related to the safety evaluation study of the repository in accordance with the quality assurance system. In the future, it is necessary to improve the user convenience by clarifying the relationship between FEP and scenarios and upgrading output functions such as visualization and automatic report generation. This purpose of this study is to research and develop the advanced program of CYPRUS. This study is based on building FEP, DIM and scenario databases. It is necessary to develop an algorithm to analyze and visualize the FEP, DIM and scenario relationship. This project is an integrated information processing platform for DB management and visualization considering user convenience. The first development goal is to build long-term evolutionary FEP, DIM, and scenarios as a database. The linkage by FEP item was designed in consideration of convenience by using a mixed delimiter of letters and numbers. This design provides information on detailed interactions and impacts between FEP items. Scenario data lists a series of events and characteristic change information for performance evaluation in chronological order. In addition, it includes information on FEP occurrence and mutual nutrition by period, and information on whether or not the repository performance is satisfied by item. The second development goal is to realize the relationship analysis and visualization function of FEP and scenario based on network analysis technique. Based on DIM, this function analyzes and visualizes interactions between FEPs in the same way as PID, RES, etc. In addition, this function analyzes FEP and DIM using network analysis technique and visualizes it as a diagram. The developed platform will be used to construct and visualize the FEP DB covering research results in various disposal research fields, to analyze and visualize the relationship between core FEP and scenarios, and finally to construct scenarios and calculation cases that are the evaluation target of the comprehensive performance evaluation model. In addition, it is expected to support the knowledge exchange of experts based on the FEP and scenario integrated information processing platform, and to utilize the platform itself as a part of the knowledge transfer system for knowledge preservation.

In Korea, research on the development of safety case, including the safety assessment of disposal facility for the spent nuclear fuel, is being conducted for long-term management planning. The safety assessment procedure on disposal facility for the spent nuclear fuel heavily involves creating scenarios in which radioactive materials from the repository reach the human biosphere by combining Features, Events and Processes (FEP) that describe processes or events occurring around the disposal area. Meanwhile, the general guidelines provided by the IAEA or top-tier regulatory requirements addressed by each country do not mention detailed methods of ‘how to develop scenarios by combining individual FEPs’. For this reason, the overall frameworks of developing scenarios are almost similar, but their details are quite different depending on situation. Therefore, in order to follow up and clearly analyze the methods of how to develop scenarios, it is necessary to understand and compare case studies performed by each institution. In the previous companion paper entitled ‘Research Status and Trends’, the characteristics and advantages/disadvantages of representative scenario development methods were described. In this paper, which is a next series of the companion papers, we investigate and review with a focus on details of scenario development methods officially documented. In particular, we summarize some cases for the most commonly utilized methods, which are categorized as the ‘systematic method’, and this method is addressed by Process Influence Diagram (PID) and Rock Engineering System (RES). The lessons-learned and insight of these approaches can be used to develop the scenarios for enhanced Korean disposal facility for the spent nuclear fuel in the future.

중·저준위방사성폐기물 표층처분시설 인간침입시나리오의 ‘평가/해석에 대한 불확실성’의 관리를 위해 GENII를 이용 한 평가결과를 오염토양에 대한 방사선영향평가를 위해 개발된 RESRAD를 이용하여 검증하였다. 중저준위방사성폐기물 표 층처분시설의 인간침입시나리오로 시추후거주시나리오를 선정하여 각 코드의 현상 모사에서 발생하는 한계점을 파악하고 동일한 입력데이터 조건에서 두 코드의 평가결과를 비교분석함으로써 모델링의 불확실성을 분석하였다. 평가결과 각 코드 에서 일부 핵종의 거동모사에 대한 차이는 있었으나 폐쇄후관리기간 이후 선량평가 결과 모든 피폭경로에 대한 경향이 유사 함을 확인하였다. 또한 RESRAD에서 확인한 선량평가 결과를 바탕으로 입력인자에 대한 민감도 분석을 수행하고 주요입력 인자를 도출하였다. 이를 통해 모델링 결과 및 입력인자에 대한 불확실성을 분석하고 안전성평가 결과에 대한 신뢰성을 확 인하였다. 본 연구의 결과는 중저준위방사성폐기물 처분시설의 Safety Case 구축에 활용될 수 있다.

The low and intermediate-level radioactive waste generated in Korea is disposed of at Wolsong Disposal Facility. For the safety of a disposal facility, it must be assessed by considering some abnormal scenarios including human intrusion as well as those by natural phenomena. The human intrusion scenario is a scenario that an incognizant man of the disposal facility will be occurred by the drilling. In this paper, the well usage scenario was classified into the human intrusion event as the probability of the well drilling is very low during the man’s lifecycle and then was assessed by using conservative assumptions. This scenario was assessed using the dilution factor of contaminants released from a disposal facility and then it was introduced the applied methodology in this study. The assessed scenario using this methodology is satisfied the regulatory limits.

처분시설은 폐쇄 후 제도적 관리기간 동안에는 처분 부지로의 일반인의 접근을 제한하며 제도적 관리기간 이후에는 부주의 한 인간침입 시에도 처분시설로 인한 방사선적 영향으로부터 침입자를 보호하도록 설계 되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 처분시 설이 부주의한 침입자에 미칠 수 있는 방사선적 영향을 GENII 프로그램을 사용하여 평가해보았다. 처분고별 적치되는 방사 성폐기물의 종류를 달리하여 평가하고 제도적 관리기간 설정에 따른 침입자에 대한 영향도 분석하였다. 평가결과 제도적 관 리기간을 두지 않아도 폐필터가 적치된 처분고를 제외하고 모두 성능 목표치를 만족하였다. 하지만 폐필터를 적치한 처분고 의 경우 인간침입 평가결과 제도적 관리기간 300년이 되어서야 성능목표치를 만족할 수 있었다. 폐필터와 함께 잡고체 폐기 물을 혼합하여 적치하는 경우 제도적 관리기간을 줄일 수 있었으며, 폐필터는 다른 폐기물과 함께 적치하여 제도적 관리기 간을 줄이는 것이 필요하다. 폐기물 적치시 방사능을 고려하여 처분고 적치방안을 적절히 수립하는 것이 국부적인 방사능의 최대값을 줄일 수 있어 방사선적 안전성을 확보하며 제도적 관리기간을 단축할 수 있어 바람직하다.

고준위 방사성폐기물 처분에 대한 종합 성능 평가를 위해 처분장 성능 및 안전성에 미치는 영향들을 단위 현상, 사건, 공정 (FEP)으로 분류하고 이들을 발생 가능성, 결과 영향, 규제, 특정 부지의 적합성 등을 고려하여 중요도를 평가한 후 유사한 FEP들을 그룹화하여 이들 FEP 그룹들 간의 상호 반응을 이해하고 이로부터 처분장으로부터 최종 생태계에 이르는 방사성 핵종들이 이동을 기술하는 시나리오를 도출하는 연구가 필요하다. 한국원자력연구원에서는 외국의 사례를 심층 분석하고 국내 전문가 의견 등을 종합하여 국내 처분 환경에 적합한 FEP들을 380 여개 포함하는 KAERI FEP List를 개발하였다. RES와 PID방법을 사용하여 처분장 방사선적 종합 안전성 평가에서 고려해야 될 5 가지 시나리오들을 도출하였다. 또한 고준위폐기물 처분안전성평가를 종합 데이터베이스 관리시스템인 KAERI CYPRUS를 개발하고 이들 결과물을 CYPRUS 내에 구축하였다.

고준위 방사성폐기물 처분에 대한 종합 성능 평가를 위해 처분장 성능 및 안전성에 미치는 영향들을 단 위 현상, 사건, 공정 (FEP)으로 분류하고 이들을 발생 가능성, 결과 영향, 규제, 특정 부지의 적합성 등을 고려하여 중요도를 평가한 후 유사한 FEP들을 그룹화하여 이들 FEP 그룹들 간의 상호 반응을 이해하고 이로부터 처분장으로부터 최종 생태계에 이르는 방사성 핵종들이 이동을 기술하는 시나리오를 도출하는 연구가 필요하다. 한국원자력연구원에서는 외국의 사례를 심층 분석하고 국내 전문가 의견 등을 종합하 여 국내 처분 환경에 적합한 FEP들을 380 여개 포함하는 KAERI FEP List를 개발하였다. RES와 PID방법 을 사용하여 처분장 방사선적 종합 안전성 평가에서 고려해야 될 5 가지 시나리오들을 도출하였다. 또한고준위폐기물 처분안전성평가를 종합 데이터베이스 관리시스템인 KAERI CYPRUS를 개발하고 이들 결 과물을 CYPRUS 내에 구축하였다.