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[[Sandia National Laboratory]] is currently investigating a z-pinch as a possible ignition source for inertial confinement fusion. On its "[[Z Pulsed Power Facility|Z machine]]", Sandia can achieve dense, high temperature plasmas by firing fast, 100-nanosecond current pulses exceeding 20 million amps through hundreds of tungsten wires with diameters on the order of tens of micrometres. The LTD is currently being investigated as a driver for the next generation of high power accelerators.
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
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>
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