Review of the Procyon explosive pulsed power system

Conference · Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1993

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/PPC.1993.512871· OSTI ID:10170202

Goforth, J H; Oona, H; Greene, A E ^[1]

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The Procyon explosive pulsed power system is designed for powering plasma z-pinch experiments. It begins with a helical explosive-driven magnetic flux compression generator (MCG) for amplifying seed current from a capacitor bank into a storage inductor. One conductor element of the storage inductor is an explosively formed fuse (EFF) opening switch tailored to divert current to a plasma flow switch (PFS) in less than 3 {mu}s. The PFS, in turn, delivers current to a z-pinch load. Experiments to date have concentrated on the explosive pulsed power components and PFS. This paper focuses on the results of a recent full energy MCG/EFF/PFS test.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 10170202
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-93-2255; CONF-930616-10; ON: DE93016562
• Resource Relation: Conference: 9. IEEE pulsed power conference,Albuquerque, NM (United States),21-23 Jun 1993; Other Information: PBD: [1993]
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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