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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.
Farzad Rahnema
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 124 | Number 2 | October 1996 | Pages 320-326
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE96-A28581
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Expressions are derived for the first-order change in the fundamental eigenvalue of the neutron transport equation due to a perturbation in the boundary condition of the system. The perturbation formula is derived in the context of the energy-dependent transport theory and its diffusion approximation. Numerical examples are given in both transport and diffusion theory.