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MIT professor develops method to verify compliance with Outer Space Treaty
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Areg Danagoulian of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is proposing a mechanism for verifying that Earth-orbiting satellites are in compliance with the Outer Space Treaty, which prohibits the placement of nuclear weapons in space. Danagoulian’s “concept and feasibility study,” titled “Verification of the Outer Space Treaty with cosmic protons,” was published recently in the journal Nature.
Choong-koo Chang (KINGS)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 267-272
According to the analysis result of the faults caused plant shut down in Korean nuclear power plants during last 10 years, the share of electrical fault is 21%. The first case was instrumentation and control system faults and it is 30%. And, more than a quarter of the electrical faults are ground faults. Consequently, ground fault protection is one of the indispensable schemes to enhance the reliability of nuclear power plant electric power systems. This paper elaborated the ground fault protection system for the main generator and preferred power supply line of typical type nuclear power plant in Korea and the vulnerability of the ground fault protection system also. Then, proposed the subharmonics voltage injection type ground fault protection scheme as an alternative.