Preliminary PBFA II design

Conference · Mon Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1979

OSTI ID:5271389

Johnson, D. L.; VanDevender, J. P.; Martin, T. H.

The upgrade of Sandia National Laboratories particle beam fusion accelerator, PBFA I, to PBFA II presents several interesting and challenging pulsed power design problems. PBFA II requires increasing the PBFA I output parameters from 2 MV, 30 TW, 1 MJ to 4 MV, 100 TW, 3.5 MJ with the constraint of using much of the same PBFA I hardware. The increased PBFA II output will be obtained by doubling the number of modules (from 36 to 72), increasing the primary energy storage (from 4 MJ to 15 MJ), lowering the pulse forming line (PFL) output impedance, and adding a voltage doubling network.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 5271389
• Report Number(s): SAND-80-0461C; CONF-800640-1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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