Program · roadmap

Roadmap, gates & milestones.

Dated commitments live on revisable surfaces — this page. Construction starts Q2 2027; FOAK first tritium ~2030–31; burner test article 2032; commercial fleet 2036. Every stage carries its gate, and no gate is softened.

Deployment

Roadmap & Gates

A staged program with gate reviews between phases. Dates are directional; each gate is a go/no-go on evidence, not a calendar.

now
Physics freeze
Frozen design points, open deposits, reproducible validation suites.
next
Component demonstration
REBCO magnets (17 T WHAM done), direct energy conversion, plug-density physics.
~2030
Integrated prototype
First integrated device demonstrating the closed physics + control stack.
~2036
First product
Aegis / MetroVolt build — fielded low-neutron power core.
Gate reviews · G1 → G4
G1 · Physics closure
Design point reproduces from open code; validation suites pass.
cleared
G2 · Component demo
Magnets, DEC and plug physics demonstrated at spec.
ahead
G3 · Integrated prototype
Closed-loop operation of the integrated device.
ahead
G4 · Commercial
Fielded product meeting availability and cost targets.
ahead
Gates are evidence-based go/no-go reviews. The largest open items (breeder confinement assumptions; burner plug density) are the binding gate criteria.
Live version The full stage-gate roadmap with owner-level detail lives in the team Lab.
Track record

Milestones

What is actually done and dated — patents, open deposits, the design freeze, and reproducibility — versus what is still ahead. Nothing here is a built machine; these are the design-and-assurance milestones that de-risk the path to one.

Patent portfolio — granted DONE
U.S. Patent 12,009,112 issued (foundational method).
Patent portfolio — filed DONE
Omnibus, U.S. Application No. 64/128,097 — Patent Pending (implementations).
Five open deposits published DONE
Breeder, burner, REBCO, DEC and AI/ML/Quantum records — live on Zenodo, CC BY 4.0.
Design freeze DONE
Publication design freeze (Aug 2026) — the frozen point every panel reproduces.
Reproducibility verified DONE
182 / 182 integrity checks pass; Tier-1 byte + Tier-2 tolerance.
Interactive 3-D model DONE
This model — public, physics-grounded, twin-ready.
Peer-review track NEXT
arXiv preprints → journal & IAEA submissions (in preparation).
High-fidelity analysis NEXT
Full FEA / CFD / MCNP via the declared HPC & quantum ports.
Prototype → fleet NEXT
Gate-reviewed path to hardware — see the Roadmap.
Done items are dated and verifiable via the linked records. Forward items are plan, not achievement — see Roadmap ↗ and Readiness ↗.
KRONOS FUSION ENERGY · Kronos Model Conceptual design and simulation study; no machine has been built