REPORTING FROM SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES IN ALBUQUERQUE MIKE SPRINGER, KOAT ACTION 7 NEWS. THE Z MACHINE IS PART OF THE LAB'S PULSED POWER PROGRAM. IT WAS BUILT IN THE 1980'S ...

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia Laboratory's Z Machine creates powerful, short pulses of electrical energy. It is the world’s most powerful electrical device. The machine is 35 meters in diameter.

The famous "arcs and sparks" photo of the Z Machine in action is actually from the moments after a shot, when electrical arcing occurs across the surface of the water. Randy Montoya | Courtesy ...

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Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, using the lab’s Z machine, a colossal electric pulse generator capable of producing currents of tens of millions of amperes, say ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A two-year, $3.8 million award has been received by Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) to hasten the day of ...

Calling Tony Stark! The Z Machine at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico is the stuff of comic book legend. The massive X-ray generator is capable of creating what astronomer ...

Such are the extremes within the Z machine at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In this image, artificial lightning spread like a wave through Z’s 33-metre-wide interior.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ Z machine, which last year emitted neutrons to enter the race to provide the world virtually unlimited electricity from, essentially, seawater ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia's Z machine has produced plasmas that exceed temperatures of 2 billion degrees Kelvin -- hotter than the interiors of stars. The unexpectedly hot output, if its cause ...

It lurks in Albuquerque, N.M., a partially submerged particle accelerator built to generate data for supercomputers that simulate nuclear explosions. But in its 10 violent years of life, the Z ...