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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.
F.Malvagi, G. C. Pomraning
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 111 | Number 3 | July 1992 | Pages 215-228
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE92-A23936
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Several models describing neutral particle transport through a binary stochastic background mixture are numerically compared. The test problem is one-group, time-independent transport with isotropic scattering in a source-free rod. The mixing statistics of the rod are taken as homogeneous and Markovian. Ensemble-averaged reflection and transmission probabilities as predicted by seven approximate models are compared with exact benchmark results that are available in the literature. Scalar flux plots that compare these seven models at interior rod locations are also given.