ITER Licensing Process Follow-up: A Part of K-DEMO Safety Study

The fusion DEMO program of Korea (referred as K-DEMO) has been progressed since 2009 to take advantages of an early mover, while carrying out scientific researches on KSTAR and International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). The K-DEMO program is a huge program and is in second phase planed for R and D from 2012 to 2021. One of the big part of this program, the fusion regulation and licensing in South Korea, can be classified into following three stages: the licensing of the KSTAR classified to a radiation generating device on the basis of the existing nuclear regulations, the verification of the design of the Test Blanket Module (TBM) and minimization of occupational irradiation damages due to tritium behaviors for ITER, and fundamental safety analysis, as a part of K-DEMO program with domestic universities funded by National Fusion Research Institute of Korea (NFRI). Kyung Hee University has studied safety analysis of K-DEMO since 2010, and surveyed ITER safety regulation and licensing process since 2012. In 2013, NFRI has carried out 'Development, Operation, and Management of core technologies for ITER' to secure the core original technologies and expend the base of domestic specialist at a fusion area by pursuing and developing non-supply technologies for ITER