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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.
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