Designing in the Open
Kronos publishes its designs, data, and code before either machine is built, so that anyone can check the physics rather than take our word for it.
The strategy in one sentence
Kronos Fusion Energy designs both of its machines — the breeder (Hyperion) and the burner (Aegis / MetroVolt) — digitally, and publishes the design points, the data behind them, and the code that produced them. Neither machine is built yet. The published record is therefore the product of a design-and-simulation program, and we say so on every page.
Why open, for a hard-tech company
Fusion has a long history of results that could not be checked from the outside. We take the opposite bet: a claim that cannot be reproduced is not yet evidence. By releasing the inputs, the method, and the outputs together, we let independent readers rerun the analysis and find our mistakes. Openness is not a marketing posture here; it is the mechanism by which our numbers earn trust.
What the flywheel turns on
- We publish the design, the open data, and the analysis code together, under open licenses.
- Independent readers reproduce and scrutinize the results on their own machines.
- Reproduction and peer review build credibility and invite collaboration.
- Scrutiny surfaces errors and sharpens the honest gates — the lines between simulation and hardware.
- The design point improves, and the cycle repeats with the next publication.
Every downstream page in this section documents one turn of that wheel: the papers, the open deposits, the reproducible pipelines, and the honest gates we refuse to hide.