00:00So what we're doing in Project Century is we're building the world's first 100-kilowatt-scale repetitive Z-Pinch device.
00:12What is essentially a miniaturized, scaled-down power core from the beginning.
00:18It's one thing to talk about the various parts of Zapp's technological approach,
00:23but it's another thing to make all these things work together in concert.
00:27The live combination of high repetition rate, high average powers, interacting with a plasma in a liquid metal environment, all at the same time.
00:38It's very much like an orchestra of instruments.
00:42We've already demonstrated the ability of our repetitive pulse power driver to go for hours at a time, firing once every 10 seconds without fault or interruption.
00:52We've also demonstrated the ability to create a liquid metal line vessel under vacuum.
01:00We'll experiment with faster rep rates and longer duration runs to incrementally test the durability and survivability of all our components.
01:10We're going to see how the entire system reacts as an electrical circuit effectively,
01:14and how plasma impedance may evolve over time, how we may have to control it.
01:21This team's very excited to see these things come to life.
01:25Things you have not seen out there in past experiments at national labs or other fusion venues,
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