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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.
Krassimira D. Ilieva, Stoyan Y. Antonov, Sergey I. Belousov
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 122 | Number 1 | January 1996 | Pages 131-135
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE96-A28553
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Calculation modeling of detector activity in a VVER/pressurized water reactor pressure vessel surveillance program, necessary for neutron fluence assessments, is developed. The detector activity for certain detectors could be obtained by solving the neutron transport equation by the appropriate activity source taking into consideration the time-dependent local power distribution. The presented results demonstrate the importance of accounting for local power variations.