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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.
S.Landsberger, P. K. Hopke, M. D. Cheng
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 110 | Number 1 | January 1992 | Pages 79-83
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE92-A23877
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To test the recent advances in receptor modeling for the identification of long-range transport of regional source signatures of airborne particulate matter, an epithermal irradiation facility to determine indium has been specifically constructed. Analysis of filter samples collected weekly over a 5-yr period has indicated that indium in the arctic atmosphere is strongly dependent on season. Typical detection limits were 0.1 ng per one-eighth of a 20.3- × 25.4-cm Whatman filter. The airborne concentrations of indium are extremely elevated in the winter and spring months, and they almost disappear in the summer months. The application of the potential source contribution function has indicated that the indium originates from several areas in Eurasia as well as from known “hot spots” in North America.