AERIAL SHOT — The Saturn accelerator, shown in the 1987 photo, is a modular, high-power, variable-spectrum, X-ray simulation source. Its major function has been to produce X-rays to test the effectiveness of countermeasures used to protect electronics and other materials against X-ray radiation from nuclear weapons. (Historical photo from the Lab News archives; Recent photo by Joel Ortiz; Video by Andrew Dormody)
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