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"The Decade Quad/Half plasma radiation source (PRS) will provide environments to test the radiation hardness of critical military systems. Optimizing the Decade PRS will require a set of x-ray diagnostics that measure not only the net x-ray yield but alsothe temperature and density of the plasma that produces the x-rays. High quality spectral data are needed to derive the temperature and density. ...

"The objective of this proposal is to demonstrate the feasibility and military utility of employing an innovative incendiary, based on state-of-the-art solid rocket propellant technology to defeat chemical and biological agents. This is accomplished byhighly effective convective heating of the interior of the facility to temperatures in excess of 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit for the extended period o ...

"Repetitive Pulsed Power technology using Repetitive Plasma Opening Switches(RPOS), as developed at the Kurchatov Institute, Russia, can be used forradiation sterilization applications in situations where standard techniquescannot be used. A relatively compact, inexpensive RPOS generator could betransported (by truck, for example) to a site where sterilization by electron-beam or x-ray irradiation ...

"PROPOSAL COVER SHEETWe will develop non-invasive, non-serum based methodology for measuring exposureof humans to chemical warfare-related agents; determine optimal sample collection and preparation,analytical procedures and assays for sample matrices for detecting CW-exposure in humans. We will optimize procedures forcollecting and preparing sample matrices obtained non-invasively from humans fo ...

"Element One Energy has developed a novel solution to optimize the benefits and solve the challenges of direct methanol fuel cells. It is proven that a direct methanol fuel cell can be given a potential and used as an electrochemical methanol reformer(EMR). With a direct methanol fuel cell, modified slightly to be a producer of hydrogen, rather than to generate current, cross-over is no longer a ...

"Development of warm bremsstrahlung sources could benefit from diagnostic techniques for monitoring the evolution of electron beams for diode optimization. FARTECH, Inc., proposes an innovative diagnostic tool to provide time resolved measurements ofelectron energy (diode voltage). This diagnostic tool will accurately measure the ratio of Ta characteristic Ka-line and the continuum intensities wi ...

"Reflex triode bremsstrahlung sources potentially provide warm X-ray sources (20 keV to 500 keV), capable of generating high doses (~10 cal/g gold) over exposure areas of ~20 cm2. This needed capability allows experimental verification of warm X-ray inducedthermomechanical response, SGEMP, and box IEMP models for achieving component and system certification to hostile environments.In a reflex trio ...

"Reflex triode bremsstrahlung sources potentially provide warm X-ray sources (20 keV to 500 keV), capable of generating high doses (~10 cal/g gold) over exposure areas of ~20 cm2. This needed capability allows experimental verification of warm X-ray inducedthermomechanical response, SGEMP, and box IEMP models for achieving component and system certification to hostile environments.In a reflex trio ...

"Nuclear Weapons Effects Tests (NWET) frequently require that the test article be irradiated in an ultra-clean environment, making survivable shields a necessary part of many debris systems. Survivable shields as large as 12 inches in diameter are requiredbut have yet to be demonstrated in Plasma Radiating Source (PRS) environments. The loads on a survivable shield are a combination of radiation i ...

"Measurements of fluence from a Plasma Radiation Source (PRS) are critical to the performance of accurate Nuclear Weapon Effects (NWE) experiments. Fast, total stopping calorimeters have been demonstrated to provide a robust, reusable, economic sensor forfluence measurements. However, the output of these sensors is a few millivolts and thus high signal to noise recording is difficult to achieve, ...