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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.
G. Reffo and M. H. MacGregor
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 114 | Number 2 | June 1993 | Pages 124-134
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE93-A24024
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Theoretical calculations of neutron superinelastic scattering on the 2.45-MeV 16+ metastable state in 178Hf are performed. The results of the cross-section calculations from the point of view of possible applications that involve energy gains obtained by using various neutron sources are analyzed.
