High Energy Density Plasma Physics at National Facilities
Lasers
NOVA (Livermore) - closed in late 1990s - 10 beams, 20 kJ UV light in ~1 ns
OMEGA (U. Rochester/LLE) - opened in 1970s - 60 beams, 30 kJ, UV (Nd glass laser)
National Ignition Facility (NIF) (Livermore) - coming on line this decade - 192 beams, 2 MJ
Z-pinches
Z-machine/PBFA-II (Sandia) - originally built in 1970s - 20 MA of current in a cylindrical wire array - ~2 MJ of X-rays in ~10 ns