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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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For Radiation Effects please contact Tom Laub
twlaub@sandia.gov
(505) 844-9142

For Pulsed Power please contact Steve Glover sfglove@sandia.gov
(505) 845-9620

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SEERI Program Highlights

Objectives

• Develop pool of well-trained scientists and engineers to support research in the areas of pulsed power, radiation effects, and high energy density science in support of the nation's stockpile stewardship mission and the military systems and satellites that are resistant to nuclear and radiation environments.
• Lay foundation for the next generation of scientists in the above areas.
• Keep Sandia Laboratories close to leading edge science and engineering at universities.

Program Opportunities

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• Competitive selection process
• 13-week summer institute
• Short courses, lectures, tours
• Weekly speaker series
• On-campus research option during academic year
• Technical research paper
• Fellowship availability
• Mentoring from Sandia Laboratory employee

Applications

• Nuclear survivability and hardness testing
• Soft x-rays for stockpile stewardship studies
• Z-pinch-driven soft x-ray sources
• Light-ion- and z-pinch-driven inertial confinement fusion (ICF)
• Diagnostics for ignition implosions
• Laser ICF
• Microwave technologies
• Mechanical and electrical response of systems to radiation
• Satellites in space radiation environments
• Coupled electron-photon particle radiation transport
• Validation of physics codes
• Physics Code Development
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