The Published Papers
Five peer-facing papers document the two machines and their enabling physics, each with an open deposit so the analysis behind it can be rerun.
The published record
Kronos has published five technical papers, each paired with an open-data deposit on Zenodo. Together they describe the breeder (Hyperion), the burner (Aegis / MetroVolt), the high-field magnet technology, the direct energy conversion physics, and the AI and quantum methods used in the design work. Each paper carries a citable DOI and an open license so the work can be read, reused, and reproduced.
The five papers
- Breeder paper — the D–T spherical tokamak Hyperion; see the breeder paper.
- Burner paper — the D–³He tandem-mirror generator; see the burner paper.
- REBCO magnet paper — the high-temperature-superconductor magnet basis; see the magnet paper.
- Direct energy conversion paper — converting charged-particle energy without a thermal cycle; see the DEC paper.
- AI & quantum paper — the computational methods behind the design sweeps; see the AI and quantum paper.
What every paper carries
No paper stands alone. Each is deposited with its data and, where applicable, the code that produced its figures, so a reader can move from a claim in the text to the exact input that generated it. The DOIs are catalogued on the DOI map. Because these are design-and-simulation studies, each paper states plainly which results are model outputs and which would require the built machine to confirm.
The papers are the public spine of the program. Everything else in this section — deposits, licenses, pipelines, the technical library — exists to make them checkable.