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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.
Maria do Carmo Lopes, Jorge Molina Avila
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 113 | Number 3 | March 1993 | Pages 217-226
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE93-A24490
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Thermal and epithermal neutron sensitivities are calculated for cobalt self-powered neutron detectors (SPNDs). Using a reformulation of the analytical model for the calculation of the electric charge produced per neutron captured, a multiple-collision treatment for the calculation of the neutron capture rate is introduced. The calculated values for thermal sensitivities are in excellent agreement with experimental results.,Taking neutron multiple scattering into account, significant differences are found in epithermal sensitivities of cobalt SPNDs with respect to the usual single-collision approximation. It is concluded that the prompt electric current produced in cobalt SPNDs is mainly determined by epithermal neutrons for 0 ratios >1.3.