Sandia National Laboratories: Scorpius Images to Test Nuclear Stockpile Simulations
October 06, 2023
October 06, 2023
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Oct. 6 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release:
One thousand feet below the ground, three national defense labs and a remote test site are building Scorpius -- a machine as long as a football field -- to create images of plutonium as it is compressed with high explosives, creating conditions that exist just prior to a nuclear explosion.
These nanosecond portraits will be compared wit . . .
One thousand feet below the ground, three national defense labs and a remote test site are building Scorpius -- a machine as long as a football field -- to create images of plutonium as it is compressed with high explosives, creating conditions that exist just prior to a nuclear explosion.
These nanosecond portraits will be compared wit . . .