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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.
C. M. Diop, B. Elhamzaoui, J. C. Nimal
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 117 | Number 4 | August 1994 | Pages 201-226
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE94-A21499
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The Monte Carlo method can be used to compute the gamma-ray backscattering albedo. This method was used by Raso to compute the angular differential albedo. Raso’s results have been used by Chilton and Huddelston to adjust their well-known albedo formula. Here, an efficient estimator is proposed to compute the double-differential angular and energetic albedo from gamma-ray histories simulated in matter by the three-dimensional Monte Carlo transport code TRIPOLI. A detailed physical albedo analysis could be done in this way. The double-differential angular and energetic gamma-ray albedo is calculated for iron material for initial gamma-ray energies of 8, 3, 1, and 0.5 MeV.