An Exploding Wire as a Fuse for the LASL Capacitor Bank--Zeus
Description:
Abstract: "An exploding copper wire, one millimeter in diameter, 30 centimeters long, has been developed as a fuse component for a Los Alamos capacitor energy source to be employed in controlled thermonuclear research studies. The fuse allows the passage of the high normal duty "action" (13,700 ampere-coulombs per capacitor) at a 20-second repetition rate. However, it interrupts the circuit to a shorted capacitor in 12 microseconds, thereby protecting the faulted capacitor from explosive energy…
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Date:
June 4, 1959
Creator:
Cnare, Eugene C.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department