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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.
L. Rondoni
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 112 | Number 4 | December 1992 | Pages 392-403
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE92-A23988
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A same probabilistic approach is applied to the case of complex reactions, i.e., of convex combinations of single reactions. The dynamical systems obtained in this way are considerably more complex than those that arise in the study of single reactions. In particular, complex reactions give rise to higher dimensional systems and require a more sophisticated analysis. No complex dynamics is observed in this work, with the exception of those cases that are not physically relevant.