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Godzilla is helping ITER prepare for tokamak assembly
ITER employees stand by Godzilla, the most powerful commercially available industrial robot available. (Photo: ITER)
Many people are familiar with Godzilla as a giant reptilian monster that emerged from the sea off the coast of Japan, the product of radioactive contamination. These days, there is a new Godzilla, but it has a positive—and entirely fact-based—association with nuclear energy. This one has emerged inside the Tokamak Assembly Preparation Building of ITER in southern France.
Mathematics & Computation (M&C) 2021 Speaker
Thomas M. Evans is a distinguished R&D staff member and the group leader of the HPC Methods for Nuclear Applications group in the Nuclear Energy and Fuel Cycles Division at ORNL. He has a PhD in nuclear engineering (1997) and MS in health physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a BS in physics and astronomy (1992) from Haverford College, Pennsylvania. His research interests are in the areas of radiation and particle transport, linear and nonlinear solvers, algorithms and methods for HPC, and computational coupled physics simulation. He is currently the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Applications Development focus area deputy in charge of the energy applications portfolio.
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