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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.
V. Rypar, J. Racek, K.-H. Fährmann, U. Grundmann, D. Ziegenbein
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 105 | Number 3 | July 1990 | Pages 218-232
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE90-A19187
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Neutron kinetics investigations at the zero-power LR-0 reactor in Czechoslovakia are described. The reactor is fueled with WWER-1000 assemblies. Reactivity perturbations generated by absorber cluster movements are investigated. It can be shown that, under certain conditions, space-dependent effects can be corrected by a simple model. The experimental results are used to verify a nodal three-dimensional, two-group neutron kinetics code.
