The Los Alamos Dense Z-Pinch program has recently completed construction of a new, high current (1.2 MA) pulsed power device for ohmically heating :>lid deuterium fibers and studying the dynanucs of these dense, magnetically confined plasmas. Experiments to date have been performed at half maximum bank energy (1OOkJ) and half current (650kA) with fiber diameters of -20 pm. Peak current is achieved in 100 ns in this three stage machine. A variety of optical, x-ray, neutron, and electrical diagnostics are employed to examine the plasma arameters. Motivation for these experiments, experimental results, and the program for Eture work are presented in this paper.
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