The linear accelerator being built as part of the Scorpius Advanced Sources and Detection (ASD) project will be longer than a football field.
The linear accelerator being built as part of the Scorpius Advanced Sources and Detection project will be longer than a football field.The Los Alamos National Laboratory has begun assembly of a groundbreaking machine that will allow researchers to use real plutonium in experiments for studying the conditions immediately before the nuclear phase of a weapon’s functioning.
These mock devices imploded at speeds greater than 10,000 miles an hour. The high-speed images gave DARHT scientists valuable data. However, scientists are keen to conduct experiments with actualEach accelerator module assembled at LANL is about five feet wide, 10 feet long, and 10 feet tall. Each module consists of three cells, each roughly three feet in diameter.
The assembly of the two modules is expected to be completed later in 2024. They will be shipped to Nevada by road and connected to other components of the Scorpius ASD. Once the on-ground testing is completed, a vendor will build another 96 cells to complete the accelerator.
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