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Title: Results of Russian/US high performance DEMG experiment

Conference ·
OSTI ID:402359
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  1. All Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics, Novgorod (Russian Federation); and others

In November 1992, the AU 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 (USA), 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.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-36
OSTI ID:
402359
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-96-3487; CONF-9608132-12; ON: DE97000940; TRN: 96:006477
Resource Relation:
Conference: Megagauss magnetic field generation and related topics, Sarov (Russian Federation), 5-10 Aug 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English