sentences:  Sandia National Laboratory is currently investigating a z-pinch as a possible ignition source for inertial confinement fusion.On its "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.