Status of the Mercury Pulsed-Power Generator, A 6-Mv, 360-Ka, Magnetically-Insulated Inductive Voltage Adder
Abstract
Mercury is a nominal 6-MV, 360-kA, 2.2-TW magnetically-insulated inductive voltage adder that is being assembled at the Naval Research Laboratory. Mercury, originally known as KALIF-HELA, was located at the Forschungszentrum in Karlsruhe, Germany. Once assembled, Mercury will be used as a testbed for development of high-power electron- and ion-beam diodes. Applications include source development for high-resolution flash radiography, nuclear weapons effects simulation, and particle-beam transport research. This paper highlights the progress of the Mercury assembly and supporting activities, including modifications from the original design, circuit modeling to optimize the Mercury circuit, power-flow simulations to understand and optimize Mercury power flow and load coupling, and MITL theory and modeling to develop a transmission-line code capability for modeling transient effects in MITLs.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 2003
- Accession Number
- ADA636319
Entities
People
- D. Creely
- D. L. Johnson
- David D. Hinshelwood
- Donald P. Murphy
- Gerald Cooperstein
- H. J. Bluhm
- H. Nishimoto
- I. Smith
- J. Kishi
- J. M. Neri
- John R. Boller
- K. Childers
- M. Klatt
- P. Hoppe
- R. C. Fisher
- Raymond J. Allen
- Robert J. Commisso
- S. Drury
- T. A. Holt
- V. Bailey
Organizations
- United States Naval Research Laboratory