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Appendix C: Examples of High Energy Density Experimental Facilities in the United States
Pages 119-119

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... High Energy Density Science Facilities Pressure Machine Energy Peak Repetition Planar/ Facility Type Delivered Power Rate Sphere National Ignition Facility Laser 1.8 MJ UV 500 TW ~1 shot/ 100 Mbar/ Lawrence Livermore photons 4 hr 10 Gbar National Laboratory The Z-Machine Pulsed 3.5 MJ 350 TW ~1 shot/ 10 Mbar/ Sandia National Laboratories power current 26 MA day 100 Mbar LLE: OMEGA/OMEGA EP Lasers 30 kJ UV 30 TW ~1 shot/ 50 Mbar/ University of Rochester hr 1 Gbar Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser 1 mJ X rays 10 GW 120 Hz 5 Mbar (MEC) Stanford Linear + laser + 50 J green Accelerator Advanced Photon Source (DCS)
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