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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.
K. H. Böckhoff, A. D. Carlson, O. A. Wasson, J. A. Harvey, D. C. Larson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 106 | Number 2 | October 1990 | Pages 192-207
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE90-A27470
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Continuing improvements in electron linear accelerators, and associated targets, detectors, and data acquisition systems, make facilities based on these neutron sources very productive in meeting nuclear data needs for fusion energy development. The operation of an electron linear accelerator is briefly outlined, and specific information about neutron-producing targets, available detector systems, and data acquisition capabilities for several of the most productive facilities is given. Data needs are reviewed in terms of reactions important to the fusion energy program, and several examples are given of data acquired at these facilities for these reactions. Much of the experimental data upon which nuclear data evaluations are based are measured at electron linacs, and they continue to be a valuable source of nuclear data for fusion reactor design.