Shiva Star

A pulsed-powerpulsed-powerAFRL facility at the Air Force Research Laboratory (Kirtland AFBAFRLShiva Star) on AFRLKirtland AFBShiva Star, Albuquerque, NM. Originally built in the 1970s for nuclear weapons effects simulation, FRCShiva Star stores up to 10 megajoules of energy and discharges it in microseconds. It was used for magnetized target fusion experiments, including the AFRL Shiva Star implosion experiments that compressed FRC plasmas to high densities.