Readiness Timeline for Installations
Aegis is at the design and simulation stage; the test burner around 2032 and commercial units around 2036 pace any real deployment.
Where the design stands
Everything in this section describes a design, not a fielded system. Aegis is at the design and simulation stage. The honest timeline is straightforward: the breeder (Hyperion) is built first, with construction beginning Q2 2027 and first-of-a-kind first tritium around 2030; the burner test unit is targeted for around 2032, and a commercial unit around 2036. There is no claim of hardware net gain before the breeder's first-of-a-kind milestone.
What the test burner must prove
The test burner is where the resilience claims meet hardware. It is meant to demonstrate the properties this section describes as design intent: grid-forming and islanding behaviour, black-start, transient response, and — above all — to narrow the availability estimate from its wide design-stage range of 0.86–0.995 toward a measured value.
- Breeder first: construction Q2 2027, first tritium ~2030
- Test burner ~2032: prove the burner and the gates
- Commercial units ~2036: begin real deployments
- No net-gain claim before the breeder's FOAK
Why the sequence is honest
The burner is perfected while the breeder is built, so early installation deployments are small and grow with design maturity and helium-3 supply. Presenting the resilience concept alongside this timeline is deliberate: the capability is real as an engineering programme, and its readiness dates are stated plainly rather than implied to exist today.
The timeline is a program schedule: breeder first, burner perfected alongside it, small early installations growing with design maturity and fuel supply — presented so the reader sees a real development path with dated milestones rather than a capability implied to exist today.