New liquid sodium facility with dynamo experiment (sphere) in foreground.Safety equipment and infrastructure for handling 300 gallons of molten liquid sodium are in place and experiment is nearly operational.

Generation of the naturally occurring magnetic fields associated with large, spinning astrophysical bodies is a well-developed branch of astrophysical plasma theory.It is generally accepted that magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) dynamos generate these magnetic fields.

Details about the MHD device>>