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- 1Inside Sandia's Z Machine: Nuclear Science Meets Clean Energy▼Inside Sandia’s Z machine, where nuclear war meets clean energy
Sandia National Laboratories' Z machine in New Mexico, the world's most powerful pulsed-power facility originally developed to study nuclear weapons effects, is being highlighted for its potential role in clean energy research, including fusion. The Albuquerque Journal takes readers inside the facility, showing how technology built for nuclear weapons stewardship is now being applied toward fusion energy and other scientific frontiers.