The Z Pulsed Power Facility, or Z machine, at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, concentrates electricity into short bursts of intense energy that can be used to create x ...

We are beginning a multiyear science program to study gas puff z-pinch physics at high current, starting with an 8-cm diameter double-shell nozzle, which delivers a column of Ar gas that is imploded ...

Oxford-based First Light leveraged the vast power of Sandia's Z Machine for the first time last month to fire a projectile at its unique amplifier technology. The Z Machine is the most powerful pulsed ...

Last month the company became the first private fusion company to conduct an experiment on the Sandia National Laboratories 'Z Machine' in New Mexico, USA, setting a new pressure record for quartz.

From Sandia’s Z-machine, molten salt from early solar research, and a melted steel artifact. “Sandia can destroy stuff, right? So, we got proof,” said Sandia Historian Rebecca Ullrich.

Using the federal government's Z machine, scientists produced this effect on a smaller, and achievable, scale. "In outer space we wouldn't have a Z machine, we would have a nuclear device," Moore ...

The Z machine is at the heart of Sandia's Z Pulsed Power Facility. It's basically a mechanism for storing a whole lot of electrical energy—up to 22 megajoules—and releasing it nearly ...

The Z machine is located in Albuquerque, N.M., and is part of the Pulsed Power Program, which started at Sandia National Laboratories back in the 1960s.

The Z machine — as it’s informally called — is the largest pulsed power machine in the world. It fires electrical pulses 1,000 times stronger than a bolt of lightning, delivering up to 22 ...

Sandia's Z machine is the world's most powerful and efficient laboratory radiation source. (Image credit: Sandia National Laboratories/Randy Montoya) ...