Z researcher Dan Sinars awarded $2.5 million DOE Early Career grant
Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 @ 22:50:51 UTC
Topic: Science
Sandia Labs News Releases: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Pursuing a fruitful line of inquiry, Sandia National
Laboratories researcher Dan Sinars has been awarded a $2.5 million,
five-year “Early Career Research Program” award for measuring
fundamental instabilities in magnetically driven Z-pinch explosions.
Sinars’ team was the first to capture, in a series of 3-D images
separated by nanoseconds, the undesirable but apparently unavoidable
appearance of a damaging instability called Magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor, or
MRT, in Z-pinch magnetic fields. Those fields could be the key to fusing
atoms to create a potentially limitless source of electrical energy...
...Sinars earlier received the 2007 IEEE Nuclear Plasma Sciences Society
Early Achievement Award “for contributions to radiographic measurements
of high energy density physics experiments on the [Sandia] 20
MA[mega-amp] Z pulsed-power generator, including wire-array [Z]-pinches,
inertial confinement fusion capsules and complex hydrodynamics
targets.” He also earned the 2007 National Nuclear Security
Administration Defense Programs Award of Excellence for Z-pinch
predictive simulation capability.
Full article: https://share.sandia.gov/news/resources/news_releases/sinars-grant/
|
|