Sandia National Labs is celebrating a milestone for two pulsed-energy generators that have contributed much to both basic science -- and the defense of the United States. Combined, the two particle accelerators, called Saturn and HERMES (for High-Energy Radiation Megavolt Electron Source), have fired some 4,000 and 9,000 times. respectively. Both were designed to last a decade or so, but they have proven so useful that Sandia has kept them running.
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