Operations & Commissioning
Performance Demonstration
Sustained operation at the design point, measured against the frozen targets.
- Goal
- Meet frozen targets, measured
The final commissioning stage sustains operation at the design point and measures it against the frozen targets — the breeder's Q = 3.076 and 85.0 MW, the burner's QE = 1.31 under its stated gate conditions. It is where computed design targets meet measured reality.
Kronos frames these targets as the demonstration goal, not a present claim.
Common questions
What is performance demonstration?
Showing the machine reaches its design targets — gain, confinement, steady operation — with measurements, turning modelled figures into demonstrated ones through the ascension campaign.
How does this relate to the gates?
It is how the later go/no-go gates are satisfied: performance is demonstrated against explicit criteria rather than claimed.