ENERGY:
Sandia Steps Into the Fusion Race
James Glanz
Officials at New Mexico's Sandia National Laboratories have made a bid for a once-obscure program to become a serious contender in the race for fusion energy. Sandia officials say the facility they are proposing could generate at least 10 times more fusion energy at about one-third the cost of the $1.2 billion National Ignition Facility being built at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, although they insist the two machines should not be seen as competitors.