The process began with a tokamak, a doughnut-shaped magnetic "bottle", containing plasma and unwanted material.
This combination would result in a pool of electrons and nuclei which in turn would cause the tokamak to overflow and transfer the plasma into an outlet.
This plasma then passes through a series of metal plates, differing in particular temperatures, all arranged in descending order.
[1] In the paper "The Fusion Torch – Closing the Cycle from Use to Reuse", Bernard J. Eastlund and William C. Gough defined population (food), entropy (resources, energy, pollution), and war (human needs and behavior) as three traps that could hamper the advancement of mankind.
[2] They also speculated that the fusion torch concept would be useful for the separation of uranium from reactor fuel element material.