Nightshade Prototype Experiments (Silverleaf)

Technical Report · Fri Dec 23 00:00:00 EST 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1338708· OSTI ID:1338708

Danielson, Jeremy ^[1]; Bauer, Amy L. ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

The Red Sage campaign is a series of subcritical dynamic plutonium experiments designed to measure ejecta. Nightshade, the first experiments in Red Sage scheduled for fiscal year 2019, will measure the amount of ejecta emission into vacuum from a double-­shocked plutonium surface. To address the major technical risks in Nightshade, a Level 2 milestone was developed for fiscal year 2016. Silverleaf, a series of four experiments, was executed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in July and August 2016 to demonstrate a prototype of the Nightshade package and to satisfy this Level 2 milestone. This report is documentation that Red Sage Level 2 milestone requirements were successfully met.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC52-06NA25396
• OSTI ID: 1338708
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-16-27510
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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