LOADS FOR PULSED-POWER CYLINDRICAL IMPLOSION EXPERIMENTS

Pulse power can be used to generate high energy density conditions in convergent hollow cylindrical geometry through the use of appropriate electrode configuration and cylindrical loads. Cylindrically symmetric experiments are conducted with the Pegasus-II inductive store, capaci tor energized pulse power facility at Los Alamos using both precision machined cylindrical liner loads and low mass vapor deposited cylindri cal foil loads. The liner experiments investigate solid density hydrod ynamic topics. Foil loads vaporize from Joule heating to generate an i mploding cylindrical plasma which can be used to simulate some fluxes associated with fusion energy processes. Similar experiments are condu cted with ''Procyon'' inductive store pulse power assemblies energized by explosively driven magnetic flux compression.