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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.
Kumiko I. Higman, Richard J. Newton, Raymond A. Lewis, Pi-Ren Chiang, Gerald A. Smith
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 118 | Number 4 | December 1994 | Pages 227-234
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE94-A21493
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Containment and interaction of charged pions in a solid linear implosion system are simulated. Pions are generated from annihilation of antiprotons at the surface of a compressed target. A three-dimensional Monte Carlo code has been developed to simulate the interaction of charged pions with the system. Neutron yields are presented for several 27-g uranium targets compressed under different initial plasma conditions. Effects on neutron yields from the diffused magnetic field and density profiles at peak compression are discussed. Results show that the magnetic field at peak compression significantly increases overall neutron yields.