Resilient Sovereign Power: Overview
Kronos studies how a compact fusion generator could supply resilient, self-sufficient power to fixed defense installations, and states plainly the gates that stand between design and hardware.
What resilient sovereign power means here
For a defense installation, resilient sovereign power is the ability to generate the electricity a mission needs on-site, without depending on a commercial grid, a fuel convoy, or a foreign supply chain, and to keep generating through disruption. Kronos studies whether the burner (Aegis / MetroVolt) — a D–3He tandem-mirror generator using direct energy conversion — could serve that role at fixed installations (bases and fixed forward sites, not naval platforms).
This is a design-and-simulation study, not deployed hardware. The breeder (Hyperion) construction begins Q2 2027 with first-of-a-kind (FOAK) first tritium targeted around 2030; the burner is a later, harder machine. We claim no hardware net gain before FOAK, and none at all for the burner today.
The honest gates
Candor is part of the value. Four physics gates presently separate the burner from a fieldable sovereign power source, and every one is a design finding, not a marketing caveat:
- Plug coil overstressed roughly 3–3.9× at the design bore — infeasible as specified.
- Plug operating regime sits 166–830× beyond any device ever run — not post-dictable today.
- Helium-3 fuel demand runs ~400× domestic supply per commercial unit — the fuel does not exist at terrestrial scale.
- Availability of ~0.86–0.995 versus hyperscale Tier III 0.99982 — 30–100× short on downtime.
These gates are why the breeder (which breeds tritium and helium-3) and lunar helium-3 matter, and why any near-term architecture treats fusion as one hardened element in a redundant power system — never a sole source. The pages in this section develop each theme with full physics candor.
How to read this section
Each page pairs a specific capability — islanding, black-start, survivability, low signature — with the honest engineering reality behind it. Where a page touches the burner, it repeats the relevant gate so no capability is read in isolation from its precondition. The consistent message is that resilient sovereign power is a system outcome: a hardened, redundant, sovereignly fuelled architecture in which a mature burner would be the anchor, achievable today only in design and simulation.