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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.
E. Saji, H. Shirayanagi
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 121 | Number 1 | September 1995 | Pages 52-56
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE95-A24128
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Critical experiments that used high-concentration mixed-oxide (MOX) fuels in boiling water reactor lattice configurations and that were performed in the VENUS International Program are analyzed with CASMO-4 (C-4) /SIMULATE-3 (S-3). Both heterogeneous full-core transport calculations by C-4 and nodal diffusion calculations by S-3 with single-bundle CASMO-4 constants are performed, and the obtained results, such as eigenvalues and pin power distributions, are compared against the measured results. The agreement between the calculations and the measurements is quite satisfactory, and a good predictive capability of C-4 and S-3 for MOX fuels is verified.