The Two Machines in One Model
The interactive 3D model holds both Kronos designs, the Hyperion breeder and the tandem-mirror burner, as fully explorable geometry.
One model, two designs
The Kronos 3D model is a single interactive scene that carries two distinct machines. The first is Hyperion, a deuterium-tritium spherical tokamak that breeds tritium. The second is the burner, a deuterium-helium-3 tandem-mirror generator that runs in two housings, Aegis for fixed defense sites and MetroVolt for data centers. Both are rendered from the same engineering geometry that underlies the published design, so the shapes you see are the shapes the physics was computed on.
Neither machine has been built. The model is a design and simulation record, not a photograph of hardware. Construction of the first Hyperion unit begins in Q2 2027, and no hardware net-gain claim is made before the first-of-a-kind reaches first tritium around 2030.
What explorable means
Every major component is a selectable object. Clicking a coil, a blanket segment, or the divertor isolates that part, shows its label, and exposes its principal dimensions and material. Cutaway planes let you slice either machine to see the layered structure from first wall outward.
The model is also physics-computable: the geometry ties back to the frozen design parameters, so field-on-axis, coil currents, and layer thicknesses read directly off the parts rather than being decorative captions.
How the two differ at a glance
- Hyperion is toroidal, compact, and dominated by a central stack; the burner is a long linear axis with mirror coils at each end.
- Hyperion breeds tritium in a lithium-bearing blanket; the burner minimizes neutrons and converts charged-particle energy directly.
- Hyperion peaks at 16.84 T on its toroidal-field conductor; the burner reaches 26.49 T in its high-field plugs.
Start with How to Read the 3D Model, then branch into either machine.