RESULTS OF RUSSIAN US HIGH-PERFORMANCE DEMG EXPERIMENT/

In November 1992, the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Exp erimental Physics (VNIIEF), Arzamas-16, Russia and the Los Alamos Nati onal Laboratory, Los Alamos NM, USA embarked on a historic effort to c onduct a joint explosive pulse-power experiment. With the concurrence of the Ministry of Atomic Energy (Russia) and the Department of Energy (U.S.), the two laboratories entered into a laboratory-to-laboratory collaboration in the areas of very high-energy pulse power and ultrahi gh magnetic fields in order to explore problems of mutual scientific i nterest, The first experiment to be planned was an explosively powered , fast, high-current pulse-power system demonstration, The experiment used a flux compressor, inductive store, and high-current opening swit ch to demonstrate the feasibility of supplying many megajoules of elec trical energy, on microsecond time scales, to high-energy density phys ics experiments. The experiment was conducted in Arzamas-16 on Septemb er 22, 1993.