Peer Review and Publication Venues

Open deposit is the floor, not the ceiling; the breeder work is offered to external peer review, and the record distinguishes deposited-and-citable from peer-reviewed.

Two independent forms of scrutiny

Depositing on Zenodo makes the breeder (Hyperion) record permanent and citable, but a DOI is not peer review. The two are separate and complementary: the deposit lets anyone reproduce the arithmetic; peer review has domain experts scrutinize the assumptions, methods, and conclusions. The record pursues both and labels the status of each work honestly.

Where the work is directed

• Preprint and open-repository deposit for immediate availability and citability.
• Peer-reviewed fusion and nuclear-engineering venues for expert scrutiny.
• Conference presentation for direct challenge from the field.
• The reproduction record, so reviewers can check numbers, not just prose.

Honest labeling of status

A work that is deposited but not yet peer-reviewed is described exactly that way; peer review, where completed, is noted. The record does not present a preprint as if it were a reviewed article. This distinction matters to a reader weighing how much external validation a given claim has received.

Peer review and reproduction catch different failures. A reproducer can confirm that the published numbers follow from the inputs and code yet miss a flawed assumption that a domain expert would challenge on sight; a reviewer can flag a questionable assumption yet never rerun a line. The breeder program treats the two as complementary filters and does not let passing one stand in for the other.

This page describes a design-and-simulation study, not a built machine. Construction of the breeder (Hyperion) begins Q2 2027; first-of-a-kind first tritium is targeted near 2030. No hardware net-gain claim is made before FOAK.