The Los Alamos/Arzamas-16 collaboration of ultrahigh magnetic fields and ultrahigh energy pulsed power

Title: The Los Alamos/Arzamas-16 collaboration of ultrahigh magnetic fields and ultrahigh energy pulsed power

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The end of the Cold War has made possible some remarkable scientific adventures--joint research projects between scientific institutions of the United States and the Russian Federation. Perhaps most unprecedented of the new partnerships is a formal collaboration which has been established between the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics and the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), the two institutes which designed the first nuclear weapons for their respective countries. In early 1992, emerging governmental policy in the US and Russia began to encourage ``lab-to-lab`` interactions between the nuclear weapons design laboratories of the two countries. Each government recognized that as nuclear weapons stockpiles and design activities were being reduced, highly qualified scientists were becoming available to use their considerable skills in fundamental scientific research of interest to both nations. VNIIEF and LANL quickly recognized a common interest in the technology and applications of magnetic flux compression, the technique for converting the chemical energy released by high-explosives into intense electrical pulses and intensely concentrated magnetic energy. This document reports on current projects of the collaboration.

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Chernyshev, V K; Mokhov, V N; Pavlovskii, A I ^[1]; Ekdahl, C A; Fowler, C M; Reinovsky, R E; Younger, S M ^[2]

All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics, Arzamas-16, Nizhni Novgorod Region (Russian Federation)
Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)

Publication Date:: 1995-09-01

Research Org.:: Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)

OSTI Identifier:: 110171

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-95-2868; CONF-950750-40
ON: DE96000010

DOE Contract Number:: W-7405-ENG-36

Resource Type:: Conference

Resource Relation:: Conference: 10. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) pulsed power conference, Albuquerque, NM (United States), 10-13 Jul 1995; Other Information: PBD: [1995]

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION; 42 ENGINEERING NOT INCLUDED IN OTHER CATEGORIES; MAGNETIC AMPLIFIERS; COORDINATED RESEARCH PROGRAMS; HIGH-VOLTAGE PULSE GENERATORS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; JOINT VENTURES; USSR; USA; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT; IMPLOSIONS; PLASMA PRODUCTION; MAGNETIC COMPRESSION

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                    Chernyshev, V K, Mokhov, V N, Pavlovskii, A I, Ekdahl, C A, Fowler, C M, Reinovsky, R E, and Younger, S M. The Los Alamos/Arzamas-16 collaboration of ultrahigh magnetic fields and ultrahigh energy pulsed power.  United States: N. p., 1995. 
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                    Chernyshev, V K, Mokhov, V N, Pavlovskii, A I, Ekdahl, C A, Fowler, C M, Reinovsky, R E, & Younger, S M. The Los Alamos/Arzamas-16 collaboration of ultrahigh magnetic fields and ultrahigh energy pulsed power.  United States.

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                    Chernyshev, V K, Mokhov, V N, Pavlovskii, A I, Ekdahl, C A, Fowler, C M, Reinovsky, R E, and Younger, S M. Fri .  
        "The Los Alamos/Arzamas-16 collaboration of ultrahigh magnetic fields and ultrahigh energy pulsed power".  United States.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/110171.

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  abstractNote = {The end of the Cold War has made possible some remarkable scientific adventures--joint research projects between scientific institutions of the United States and the Russian Federation. Perhaps most unprecedented of the new partnerships is a formal collaboration which has been established between the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics and the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), the two institutes which designed the first nuclear weapons for their respective countries. In early 1992, emerging governmental policy in the US and Russia began to encourage ``lab-to-lab`` interactions between the nuclear weapons design laboratories of the two countries. Each government recognized that as nuclear weapons stockpiles and design activities were being reduced, highly qualified scientists were becoming available to use their considerable skills in fundamental scientific research of interest to both nations. VNIIEF and LANL quickly recognized a common interest in the technology and applications of magnetic flux compression, the technique for converting the chemical energy released by high-explosives into intense electrical pulses and intensely concentrated magnetic energy. This document reports on current projects of the collaboration.},

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