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Portable 1MV X-ray system combines Cockcroft–Walton with Van de Graaff dome

17 pointsby LAsteNERDlast Thursday at 3:51 PM2 commentsview on HN

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Animatstoday at 5:52 AM

What is the equipment at [1] in the video? It looks like a huge room of large centrifugal blowers not connected to any ductwork. Is that some random AI-generated picture? From Los Alamos National Laboratory?

For comparison, here are some large centrifugal blowers from The New York Blower Company.[2] They're a standard industrial item, but unrelated to X-ray machines.

[1] https://youtu.be/tq_AFsq86sw?t=25

[2] https://www.nyb.com/radial/

CamperBob2today at 5:12 AM

Very cool. I have a ~750 kV VDG that sits around gathering dust in the garage because it's such a pain to keep the moving parts aligned and running smoothly. Might have to retrofit it with a C-W stack.