Abstract
Interest in devices capable of generating many millions of volts and passing hundreds of thousands of amps for tens of nanoseconds has grown considerably in the last few years. At the present stage machines have been built in the United States which can produce X-ray doses in excess of 7000 roentgens (R) at 1 metre in 100 nanoseconds with voltages as high as 10 million volts and electron beam currents around 250,000 amps (1).
First Printed as “High Speed Pulsed Power Technology at Aldermaston” in AWRE News, Vol. 16, No.5 pp. 18-23, March 1969.
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Goodman, M.J. (1996). High Speed Pulsed Power Technology at Aldermaston. In: Martin, T.H., Guenther, A.H., Kristiansen, M. (eds) J. C. Martin on Pulsed Power. Advances in Pulsed Power Technology, vol 3. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1561-0_1
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