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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.
S. Cabral, G. Börker, H. Klein, W. Mannhart
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 106 | Number 3 | November 1990 | Pages 308-317
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE90-A29059
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Neutron production from the D(d,np) reaction is investigated for projectile energies between 5.34 and 13.29 MeV, and for emission angles of up to 15 deg. The breakup spectral angular cross section is deduced from neutron time-of-flight measurements normalized to the well-established D(d,n)3He angular cross section. The energy-integrated neutron yield from breakup reactions strongly increases with the projectile energy, and it exceeds the yield of monoenergetic neutrons at projectile energies of ≈9 MeV for neutron emission in a forward direction. The angular distributions behave very similarly for both reactions up to laboratory angles of 10 deg. In addition, it is possible to describe the breakup spectra for emission angles up to 10 deg with only one distribution unique to each energy when normalizing the spectra to the maximum energy of the breakup neutrons.