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We recently hosted Bill Reass—a renowned pulse power expert with over 50 years of experience in the field, including with top U.S. national labs and universities. He joined Blake Rablah, our Manager of Pulsed Power Systems, for a week in our lab as we prepare to compress plasmas in LM26 soon.  Did you know? Pulsed power is storing accumulated energy over time and discharging it rapidly for instantaneous power (like a lightning bolt ⚡).     Our MTF approach uses pulsed power in various applications:   ⚡ Ionizing the target gas to become a plasma   ⚡ Forcing the plasma into the target chamber of the plasma injector   ⚡ Generating the stabilizing magnetic field that helps keep our plasma confined   ⚡ Compressing the plasma via a conducting metal lithium liner Thank you for visiting and sharing your expertise with us, Bill!

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Jeffrey Polochak

Principal Systems Engineer

1h

Those look very familiar. I remember using those a decade ago. Fun working with pulsed power.

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Mike Donaldson

Senior Vice President, Technology Development at General Fusion

1w

Great to have Bill here. We've always worked well together and we get great value out of his visits.

John Stark

Electrical Engineer at BAE Systems

11h

Are those the old Kirk Modules! If so, I'm glad they are getting some use! I had those in my lab about 10 years ago.

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John Rauch

Equipment repair technician and consultant as needed for High Voltage safety and test enclosures, High Voltage pulsed power component test engineer, Capacitor Process engineer, Engineering technician

5d

Awesome

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Brad Maynard

Pulsed Power Electrical Engineer

1w

Bill is the best!

Conrad Farnsworth

From megatons to megajoules.

1w

Pajarito 👌👌👌

Delusion.

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