Status of the Mercury Pulsed-Power Generator, A 6-Mv, 360-Ka, Magnetically-Insulated Inductive Voltage Adder

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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.

Author(s):
Commisso, R. J. ; Allen, R. J. ; Boller, J. R. ; Cooperstein, G. ; Fisher, R. C. ; Hinshelwood, D. D. ; Holt, T. A. ; Murphy, D. P. ; Neri, J. M. ; Childers, K. ; Bailey, V. ; Creely, D. ; Drury, S. ; Johnson, D. L. ; Kishi, J. ; Klatt, M. ; Nishimoto, H. ; Smith, I. ; Hoppe, P. ; Bluhm, H. J.
Author Organization(s):
NAVAL RESEARCH LAB WASHINGTON DC PLASMA PHYSICS DIV
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Conference paper
Supplementary Note:
Prepared in collaboration with Titan Pulse Sciences Division, San Leandro, CA and Forschungszentrum, IHM, Karlsruhe und Mikrowellentechnik, Germany. Presented at 2003 IEEE Pulsed Power Conference (14th), PPC-2003, in Dallas, TX on 15-18 Jun 2003 and published in proceedings of the same, p383-386; 0-7803-7915-2/03. See also ADM002371, 2013 IEEE Pulsed Power Conference, Digest of Technical Papers 1976-2013, and Abstracts of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science. The original document contains color images.
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Collection: TR
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DOE
 Subject Terms
Joint Capability Areas:
JCA_5_Command and Control; JCA_5.3_Planning
Modernization Areas:
Microelectronics
Communities of Interest:
Energy and Power Technologies
Descriptor(s):
*PARTICLE ACCELERATOR COMPONENTS, *RESEARCH FACILITIES, CIRCUIT ANALYSIS, ELECTRON BEAMS, ION BEAMS
Field(s)/Group(s):
Electrical and Electronic Equipment, Operations Research, Test Facilities, Equipment and Methods, Particle Accelerators, Nuclear Physics and Elementary Particle Physics, Plasma Physics and Magnetohydrodynamics
Keyword(s):
IVA(INDUCTIVE VOLTAGE ADDER), MERCURY (MAGNETICALLY INSULATED IVA), CIRCUIT MODELS, LOAD COUPLING, MITL(MAGNETICALLY INSULATED TRANSMISSION LINE)
Report Date:
2003 Jun 01
Creation Date:
2016 Aug 31