Dr. Sung-Woo Kwak | Nonproliferation | Best Researcher Award

Principal Researcher, Korea Institute of Nuclear Nonproliferation and Control, Korea

Dr. Sung-Woo Kwak received his Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering at KAIST and broadened his expertise as a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. Then he joined the Korea Institute of Nuclear Nonproliferation and Control (KINAC), where he has served as Principal Researcher in the Safeguards Division since January. His research areas include radiation detection and measurements, nuclear safeguards verification, and spent nuclear fuel inspection technologies. Dr. Sung-Woo Kwak has authored more than 28 SCIE-indexed journal papers with an H-index of 7, and he holds patents, including the Inspection Equipment for Spent Nuclear Fuel . He has completed 10 research projects and currently leads an ongoing project on nuclear safeguards technologies. His innovations have contributed to the development of verification equipment for CANDU spent nuclear fuel, which is under IAEA certification review for international safeguards inspections. He also serves as a collaborator in radiation detector development projects, contributing to the global nuclear nonproliferation community.

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Featured Publications

S-W. Kwak — Uncertainty analysis based on Bayesian inference for partial defect verification of PWR spent nuclear fuel — Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2025

S-W. Kwak — Field test for performance evaluation of a new spent-fuel verification system in heavy water reactor — Journal of Instruments, 2024

S-W. Kwak — Evaluation of neutron attenuation properties using helium-4 scintillation detector for dry cask inspection — Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2023

S-W. Kwak — Performance evaluation of Yonsei Single-photon Emission Computed Tomography (YSECT) for partial-defect inspection within PWR-type spent nuclear fuel — Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2024

S-W. Kwak — Comparison of existing and new optical fiber-based scintillation detectors for spent-fuel verification equipment — Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, 2023