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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.
B. Akherraz, C. Fedon-Magnaud, J. J. Lautard, R. Sanchez
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 120 | Number 3 | July 1995 | Pages 187-198
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE95-A24118
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Three approaches are presented to treat anisotropic scattering in neutron transport. The approaches are based on the even-odd-parity flux formalism and yield three different second-order equations for the even-parity flux. The first one is based on the total elimination of the odd-parity flux of the second-order equation. In the other two approaches, anisotropic scattering contributions are homogenized and incorporated into the collision term. The numerical solutions of these equations are implemented in the CRONOS code for pressurized water reactor core calculations and are done with a finite element spatial approximation and the discrete ordinates methods (SN) for the angular variable. Numerical results are presented for critical problems (keff) in x-y geometry. Comparisons with the APOLL02 assembly code show the accuracy and the efficiency of the proposed algorithms.