Speaker
Mr
Nathan Joseph
(Sandia National Laboratories)
Description
The Saturn accelerator was commissioned in 1987 as a 5.4 MJ, 2.7 MV flash x-ray machine that delivers 750 kJ at 2.1 MV to a three-ring Bremsstrahlung (BREMS) diode with a peak power of 25 TW and FWHM pulse width of 40 ns. In December of 2017 and June of 2018 experiments were conducted using varying numbers of Saturn pulsed power modules connected to one of the three Saturn parallel BREMS diodes. In this paper, we will describe the measured effect of current scaling on a single cathode BREMS diode, with metrics on total current and calculated voltage to a single BREMS diode, compared with radiation production from a single BREMS diode (total dose and pulsed width) on the Saturn accelerator.
- Sandia National Laboratories is a multi-mission laboratory managed and operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC., a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International, Inc., for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-NA-0003525.
Author
Mr
Nathan Joseph
(Sandia National Laboratories)
Co-authors
Chris Grabowski
(Sandia National Laboratories)
Dr
Ken Struve
(Sandia National Laboratories)
Ben Ulmen
(Sandia National Laboratories)
Mr
Andrew Biller
(Sandia National Laboratories)
Mrs
Debrah Kirschner
(Sandia National Laboratories)
