Digital Twin Overview

A digital twin is a living, physics-faithful software model that stays synchronized with the real machine; Kronos runs coupled twins of its breeder and burners to design, build, and operate them.

The concept

More than a 3D model, a twin couples equilibrium, transport, magnets, heat exhaust, and tritium accounting into one self-consistent model that can be driven with real or simulated inputs and asked what-if questions.

How Kronos uses it

The BREEDER (Hyperion) is a compact D-T spherical tokamak with a closed operating point at Q 3.076, 85.04 MW fusion power, 9.66 MA plasma current, 16.84 T peak field with 8 T on-axis, negative triangularity -0.30, and TBR 1.8. The BURNER (Aegis / MetroVolt) is a D-3He tandem mirror. Each has its own twin.

Honest note

The twins are simulation results defining what hardware must reproduce. Kronos makes no hardware net-gain claim before first-of-a-kind first tritium, targeted around 2030, with construction beginning Q2 2027.