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HERMES Accelerator
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The High-Energy Radiation Megavolt Electron
Source (HERMES) III accelerator is the world's most powerful gamma
simulator, producing 13 TW of power in a 19-MeV, 700-kA, 28-ns
electron beam. HERMES uses technology developed by Pulse
Sciences, Inc. and Sandia National Laboratories in the joint Defense
Special Weapons Agency/Department of Energy Linear Induction
Accelerator program, and can provide eight shots per day, four days
per week. HERMES III has both indoor and outdoor test cells, and is
used primarily for simulating the effects of prompt radiation from a
nuclear burst on electronics and complete military systems. The
accelerator is housed in Sandia's Simulation Technology
Laboratory.
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