Results of Russian/US high-performance DEMG experiment
- All-Russian Scientific Research Inst. of Experimental Physics, Nizhni Novgorod (Russian Federation); and others
In November 1992, the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics (VNIIEF), Arzamas-16, Russia and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA embarked on a historic effort to conduct a joint explosive pulse-power experiment. With the concurrence of the Ministry of Atomic Energy (Russia) and the Department of Energy (US), the two laboratories entered into a laboratory-to-laboratory collaboration in the areas of very high-energy pulse power and ultrahigh magnetic fields in order to explore problems of mutual scientific interest. The first experiment to be planned was an explosively powered, fast, high-current pulse-power system demonstration. The experiment used a flux compressor, inductive store, and high-current opening switch to demonstrate the feasibility of supplying many megajoules of electrical energy, on microsecond time scales, to high-energy density physics experiments. The experiment was conducted in Arzamas-16 on September 22, 1993.
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 522405
- Journal Information:
- IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, Vol. 25, Issue 2; Other Information: PBD: Apr 1997
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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