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Sandia's roadmap includes another future Z machine version called ZN (Z Neutron) to test higher yields in fusion power and automation systems. ZN is planned to give between 20 and 30 MJ of hydrogen fusion power with a shot per hour thanks to Russian Linear Transformer Driver (LTD) replacing the current Marx generators.<ref>[http://www.sandia.gov/LabNews/070427.html Rapid-fire pulse brings Sandia’s Z method closer to goal of developing high-yield fusion reactor], Sandia's press release (April 27 , 2007).</ref> After 8 to 10 years of operation, ZN would become a transmutation pilot plant capable of a fusion shot every 100 seconds.<ref>[http://www.prod.sandia.gov/cgi-bin/techlib/access-control.pl/2006/067148.pdf Z-Inertial Fusion Energy: Power Plant Final Report FY 2006], Sandia Report SAND2006-7148 (October 2006).</ref>
The next step planned would be the Z-IFE (Z-inertial fusion energy) test facility, the first true z-pinch driven prototype fusion power plant. It is suggested it would integrate Sandia's latest designs using LTDs. Sandia labs recently proposed a conceptual 1 petawatt (10<sup>15</sup> watts) LTD Z-pinch power plant, where the electric discharge would reach 70 million amperes.<ref>W.A. Stygar ''et al.'', [http://www.sandia.gov/pulsedpower/prog_cap/pub_papers/accelerator_architecture_PRSTAB_2007.pdf Architecture of petawatt-class z-pinch accelerators] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303192309/http://www.sandia.gov/pulsedpower/prog_cap/pub_papers/accelerator_architecture_PRSTAB_2007.pdf |date=2016-03-03 }} (October 2007).</ref>
[[Image:Petawatt LTD z pinch.png|thumb|center|500px|Proposed model of a 1,000 terawatt LTD-based z-pinch accelerator.<br> 104 m diameter, 70 million amperes, 24 megavolts.<br> Human being (the black line just left of the center of the LTD) for scale.]]
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