Time-exposure photograph of electrical flashover arcs produced over the surface of the water in the accelerator tank as a byproduct of Z operation. These flashovers are much like strokes of lightning
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Electromagnetic Technology at Sandia National Laboratories
The Radiographic Integrated Test Stand (RITS) accelerator was built as a test bed for research and development of pulsed power drivers and radiographic diodes. The RITS-3 acceleratory has been upgraded from three to six inductive voltage adder cells. The new RITS-6 acceleratory is designed to deliver 11 MV, 125 kA, 60-nspulses for flash X-ray radiography source development.