Z Pulsed Power Facility

35°02′08″N 106°32′33″W / 35.035451°N 106.542522°W / 35.035451; -106.542522

The Z Pulsed Power Facility, informally known as the Z machine or simply Z, is the largest high frequency electromagnetic wave generator in the world, operated by Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

It has primarily been used as an inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research facility, including the magnetized liner inertial fusion (MagLIF) approach, and for testing materials in conditions of extreme temperature and pressure. In particular, it gathers data to aid in computer modeling of nuclear weapons and eventual fusion pulsed power plants.

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