Production of nanoporous palladium from a deuterium loaded wire driven by a low energy, fast pulser

A low energy, fast rise time system for pulsing low mass wires is presented. The system was used to pulse a deuterium loaded wire using a fast pulse not sufficiently energetic to drive an unloaded wire into vaporization. An element such as palladium, which was studied in these experiments, has the capacity to store deuterium to extremely high concentrations. The pulsed power system will be described, and results will be presented showing the production of nanoporous palladium using a low energy pulsed power system.