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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. R. Drumm, W. C. Fan, J. H. Renken
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 1 | May 1991 | Pages 16-49
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23805
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The ability to efficiently model coupled electron-photon transport is essential for determining the response of electronics components to nuclear radiation environments. Furthermore, to fully characterize the effect of many different radiation environments on a component, an adjoint transport capability is desirable. The theory of adjoint electron-photon transport is described with the CEPXSZONEDANT-LD discrete ordinates code package and the method is applied to a set of example problems representative of those encountered in radiation effects testing. Adjoint transport, in addition to efficiently modeling radiation source variations, can effectively model geometry variations for certain classes of problems. A new linear-discontinuous approximation of the continuous slowing down operator that introduces no upscatter is also developed.