GENERAL ATOMICS ENERGY PRODUCTS AWARDED NIF PILC CAPACITOR ORDER

General Atomics Energy Products (GAEP) announced today that it has been awarded an order for 320 of its Model 36372 Capacitors by Raytheon Technical Services Co. The capacitors are part of the Pre-Ionization Lamp Circuit in the Power Conditioning System modules being built by Raytheon for the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. When completed, the Department of Energy's National Ignition Facility will contain the world's largest laser, designed for Inertial Confinement Fusion experiments.

Each capacitor is 12" x 16" x 25" in size and weighs 282 pounds. The construction, GAEP's Type C, is a high-density Kraft paper with extended foil electrodes, impregnated with castor oil. The package is a welded steel can with a single low profile bushing.

GAEP is a leading supplier of high voltage capacitors, high voltage, high power AC/DC switching power supplies, power conditioning and pulse power systems used in pulse power research facilities, lasers, accelerators, and a variety of other applications. GAEP is part of General Atomics Electronic Systems, Inc. (GA-ESI), an affiliate company of General Atomics. The GAEP product lines, formerly part of Maxwell Technologies, Inc., were purchased by General Atomics in March 2000 and merged with GA-ESI in January 2001. GA-ESI also designs and manufactures radiation-monitoring systems, and terminal automation products and manufactures and tests synthetic aperture radar (SAR) for the LYNX unmanned aircraft system.

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