Public Fusion Programmes
The megaprojects and national labs whose science the whole field — including Kronos — builds on.
- Role
- Foundational science
Public programmes — the ITER project, national laboratories, and major devices like JET, W7-X, NSTX and NIF — establish the physics database and validated codes the entire field relies on. They are slow and large but foundational.
Kronos anchors its assumptions (confinement scaling, magnet fields, reaction rates) to this public science rather than to first-principles optimism — benefiting from it rather than dismissing it.
Common questions
Public programmes prove the physics at large scale and generate the database Kronos designs to. Kronos aims to commercialise focused products quickly, complementing rather than duplicating that public science.
No. Its designs use standard confinement scaling (H98 = 1.0) already in today's database, so the breeder's case does not hinge on any single future experiment.