Sandia’s Z machine is the world’s most powerful and efficient laboratory radiation source. It uses high magnetic fields associated with high electrical currents to produce high temperatures, …

Sandia’s Z machine is Earth’s most powerful pulsed-power facility and X-ray generator. Z compresses energy in time and space to achieve extreme powers and intensities, found …

Sandia’s Z machine uses electricity to create radiation and high magnetic pressure, which are both applied to a variety of scientific purposes ranging from weapons research to the pursuit of …

Currently, the Z machine can fire once a day. A fusion energy machine would have to fire around six times per minute, capture the energy from the shots, and then transmit it to a power …

The Z machine’s role in solving the world’s energy challenges is directly tied to its fusion potential. With growing concerns about the health of our planet and escalating energy needs, the …

How does the Z machine work? The Z machine uses electricity to create radiation and high magnetic pressure, which are both applied to a variety of scientific purposes ranging from …

The world’s largest pulsed-powered accelerator—the Z Machine housed at Sandia­—is an engine of discovery. Z Machine stores up to 22 megajoules of electrical energy in a series of capacitor …

— A long-standing but unproven assumption about the X-ray spectra of black holes in space has been contradicted by hands-on experiments performed at Sandia National Laboratories’ Z …

Z machine researchers are working on magnetized liner inertial fusion (MagLIF), a new and exciting approach to fusion, never tried before. MagLIF aims to generate fusion energy by …

Sep 2, 2021 · ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is celebrating 25 years of research conducted at its Z Pulsed Power Facility — a gymnasium-sized accelerator …