Freeze--Don't Move.(Brief Article)

The Dual-Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test facility (DARHT) is a massive X-ray machine located at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Los Alamos National Laboratory. It is built to provide valuable freeze-frame photos of materials imploding at speeds more than 100,000 miles an hour.

Recently, DARHT's first hydrodynamic test was successfully performed. The test is called hydrodynamic because metals and other materials flow like liquids when driven by the high pressures and temperatures generated by the detonation of high explosives. The successful test marks the operational ...

Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.