Majors

Flagship (with KINS)

Nuclear and Radiation Safety

Mission

The aim of Nuclear And Radiation Safety (NARS) major is to cultivate human resource with expertise in nuclear and radiation safety based on the convergence of the education and research of the various areas of the major, such as nuclear safety analysis on the design-basis accident, severe accident, I&C, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, radiation, etc. In addition, it develops awareness of the safety with the education on the regulation of nuclear and radiation safety.

Lectures

Introduction to Severe Accident in Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Fission Product Behavior in Severe Accident

Introduction to Probabilistic Safety Assessment

Environmental Safety Technology

Introduction to Human Reliability Analysis

Analog Circuit Design for Sensor Interface

Digital Circuit Design for Measured Signal Processing

Tribology/Fracture Mechanics

Professor

Research Area

Nuclear Safety Analysis & Severe Accident

Nuclear safety analysis including beyond design-basis accident
Development of analysis methodology (and/or a computer code) on the severe accident of a nuclear power plant
Fission product behavior during a severe accident

Nuclear Mechanical/Material Safety

Understanding the failure problems and developing engineering design to maintain the safety of the mechanical components and materials in the nuclear power plant
Mechanical safety analysis on the components
Material safety analysis on the components of a system in the nuclear power plant

Civil Engineering in Nuclear Safety

Structural integrity of the containment in the nuclear power plant to maintain the containment as final physical barrier in the defense-in-depth concept
Structural integrity analysis on the containment considering internal pressure, external impacts and explosion loads.

Radiation Measurement for Harsh Environment

High sensitivity radiation detectors and systems for monitoring ultra-low levels in various environments, including marine, airborne, etc.
Radiation detector and system design using Monte Carlo simulation
Novel radiation detector technology for high sensitivity radiation detection

Human Factors and Human Reliability Analysis

Human and organizational performance observed from simulated emergency situations
A human reliability analysis (HRA) method addressing the effect of novel working environments on the likelihood of human errors
Culture effects of teams/organizations on their performance
Dynamic HRA method and its application with deep-learning techniques