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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The source of power is often a laser, or in the case of the Z machine, a Z pinch. Whatever the source, the intense burst of power causes the target to implode, compressing the material in it …

— 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 …

Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories use the Z machine to create matter found in conditions at the core of the Earth or the deep interior of Neptune and Jupiter, and measure the properties.