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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.
R. E. Alcouffe
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 105 | Number 2 | June 1990 | Pages 191-197
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE90-A23748
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The development of a diffusion-accelerated Sn transport method for the solution of temperature-coupled radiation flow problems on a spatial mesh of arbitrary quadrilaterals in r-z geometry is presented. The diffusion acceleration equation is derived from the diamond-like transport spatial discretization. The effectiveness of the method is shown on an example calculation and computation times are indicated.