@inproceedings{5e8a115c7c994dc588c70518bdf88125,
title = "Atlas - A new pulsed power tool at Los Alamos National Laboratory",
abstract = "The Atlas pulsed power driver has recently been commissioned at Los Alamos National Laboratory. This paper provides an overview of the Atlas facility, its initial experimental program and plans for the future. The reader desiring more detailed information is referred to papers in this conference by Keinigs et al. on materials studies, Cochrane et al.on machine performance and Ballard et al. on fabrication and assembly. Atlas is a high current generator capable of driving 30 megamps through a low-inductance load. It has been designed to require minimal maintenance, provide excellent diagnostic access, and rapid turnaround. Its capacitor bank stores 23.5 megajoules in a four-stage Marx configuration which erects to 240 kV at maximum charge. It has a quarter-cycle time of 4.5 microseconds. It will typically drive cylindrical aluminum liners in a z-pinch configuration to velocities up to 10 mm/p.sec while maintaining the inner surface in the solid state. Diagnostic access includes 360° of radial view as well as axial views from above and below. The photograph shows the circle of tanks containing capacitor banks, the diagnostic platform and load area. Atlas construction began in 1996 and high-current acceptance tests were completed in December of 2000. Initial shots include liner characterization shots using a target design similar to NTLX experiments (see several papers by Turchi et ai., this meeting). These will be followed by experiments studying hydro features, useful for validating hydrodynamic algorithms used in weapons computer codes. DOE plans to relocate the Atlas generator to the Nevada Test Site as early as 2002, where it will continue its experimental program supporting the Stockpile Stewardship program and other users.",
author = "Scudder, {David W.} and Archuleta, {Stephanie A.} and Ballard, {Evan O.} and Barr, {Gerald W.} and Cochrane, {J. C.Bucky} and Davis, {Harold A.} and Griego, {Jeffrey Randall} and Hadden, {E. Staley} and Hinckley, {William B.} and Hosack, {Kieth W.} and Martinez, {John E.} and Diann Mills and Padilla, {Jennifer N.} and Parker, {Jerald V.} and Parsons, {W. Mark} and Reinovsky, {Robert Emil} and Stokes, {John L.} and Thompson, {M. Clark} and Tom, {C. Y.} and Wysocki, {Frederick Joseph} and Vigil, {Billy Norman} and Juan Elizondo and Miller, {R. Bruce} and {Del Anderson}, H. and Campbell, {Timothy N.} and Owens, {Ronnie S.}",
year = "2015",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1109/PPPS.2001.01002050",
language = "English",
series = "PPPS 2001 - Pulsed Power Plasma Science 2001",
publisher = "Unknown Publisher",
pages = "294--297",
editor = "Mark Newton and Robert Reinovsky",
booktitle = "PPPS 2001 - Pulsed Power Plasma Science 2001",
note = "28th IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science and 13th IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference, PPPS 2001 ; Conference date: 01-01-2015",
}