Sentences with phrase «shaped fusion facilities»

Not exact matches

Sandia's dark - horse entry in the fusion race still consumes far more energy than it releases, but that is also true of the more conventional — and more expensive — approaches to fusion, such as bombarding encapsulated fuel with laser light from every direction (as the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, Calif., does) or using giant superconducting magnets to heat levitating plasma for minutes at a time inside a doughnut - shaped chamber (as the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor in France may do when it's completed around 2027).

Spherical tokamaks are compact fusion facilities shaped like cored apples, compared with the doughnut - like shape of conventional tokamaks that are in wider use.