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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.
Wei Shen, Zhongsheng Xie, Banghua Yin
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 121 | Number 1 | September 1995 | Pages 130-135
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE95-A24134
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Green’s function nodal expansion method (GNEM) is developed for the efficient numerical solution of the multidimensional neutron diffusion equation. It is an improved version of the nodal expansion method (NEM) and the nodal Green’s function method (NGFM). The node interior fluxes are approximated by a high-order polynomial expansion as in NEM. The nodal surface fluxes are coupled with the net currents by using the Green’s function method to improve accuracy. The GNEM computer code is encoded and tested. The numerical results demonstrate that GNEM has the same accuracy as NGFM while it is twice as fast as NGFM.