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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.
Thomas E. Booth, Shane P. Pederson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 110 | Number 3 | March 1992 | Pages 254-261
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE92-A23897
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Historically, Monte Carlo variance reduction techniques have been developed one at a time in response to calculational needs. The theoretical basis is provided for obtaining unbiased Monte Carlo estimates from all possible combinations of variance reduction techniques. Hitherto, the techniques have not been proven to be unbiased in arbitrary combinations. The authors are unaware of any Monte Carlo techniques (in any linear process) that are not treated by the theorem herein.