The ATLAS Project

Operated by the University of California for the US Department of Energy

ATLAS---Pulsed Power for Science-Based Stockpile Stewardship

Atlas is a pulsed power facility designed to perform high energy-density experiments in support of weapon-physics and basic-research programs. It is designed to be an international user facility, providing experimental opportunities to researchers from LLNL, SNL, AWE, and various academic institutions. For hydrodynamic experiments, it will be capable of achieving pressures exceeding 20-Mbar in a several cm³ volume.

The capacitor bank design consists of a 24-MJ array of 240-kV Marx modules. The system is designed to deliver a peak current of 25- to 33-MA with a 4- to 5-microsecond rise-time.