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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.
Hwasung Yeom, Benjamin Maier, Greg Johnson, Tyler Dabney, Mia Lenling, Payton Scallon (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Javier Romero, Jorie Walters, Peng Xu, Hemant Shah (Westinghouse), Kumar Sridharan (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Transactions | Volume 118 | Number 1 | June 2018 | Pages 1576-1579
