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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.
P. E. Labeau
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 119 | Number 3 | March 1995 | Pages 212-217
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE95-A24087
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Until now, the only benchmarks known in probabilistic dynamics were very simple onedimensional cases. This technical note demonstrates how to obtain from these results the solution of multidimensional problems with independent dynamics and then shows how the use of quasi monomial transformations leads to a wide variety of benchmarks for two-state problems in both repairable and nonrepairable assumptions.