The French machine Z sulks energy [16 / 05 / 07]
Little "Sphinx".
In the middle of Quercy, at the Gramat Study Center (CEG), the DGA has been operating for a few years a small French Z machine (2,5 millions of amperes), called "Sphinx". Like her American sister, she is mainly used to test the resistance of nuclear warheads. Unlike her, she will not experience any civilian experiments. A few years ago, Gramat researchers had yet launched poles to their military tutelage to diversify their studies, without success. Asked by "Les Echos", the very "fierce" CEG ensures today have no energy project. This shyness investment worries the specialists of necking. "French skills in this power engineering are under threat," says one of them.
In Britain, an equivalent machine, Imperial College's Magpie (1,4 million amperes), is actively working on magnetic necking, especially on American funds. Not powerful enough to achieve the nuclear goals of the machine Z, it is used by Americans to complete their research on the necking itself. The Russians are also about to invest this research topic.
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