Two major fusion research reactors are being built over the next decade — the international
ITER magnetic confinement reactor (for $ 5 to 10 billion) and the US National Ignition Facility (NIF — $ 2 to 5 billion) to study «inertial confinement».
Not exact matches
(
ITER uses a different approach, called
magnetic confinement fusion.)
The collaboration will study fusion in a relatively unexplored intermediate density regime between the lower - than - air density of
magnetic confinement fusion (MCF) that is studied at the
ITER project in southern France, and the greater - than - solid density of laser - driven inertial
confinement fusion (ICF) at the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
There are two approaches to fusion energy, inertial
confinement (the National Ignition Facility or NIF at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, for example) and
magnetic confinement (the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor or
ITER, for example).