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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
The Albuquerque Journal takes readers inside Sandia National Laboratories' Z machine in New Mexico, the world's most powerful pulsed-power facility. Originally built to study materials under nuclear weapons conditions, the device is now central to research on fusion energy, exploring how the same physics that powers warheads could one day deliver clean, abundant power.