Firm Power for Defense Sites

The burner (Aegis) is housed for fixed defense installations needing resilient on-site firm power, with the same honest engineering gates.

Fixed defense installations require resilient, independent power that does not fail when the wider grid does. The burner in its Aegis housing (Aegis / MetroVolt) is conceived as a compact firm clean generator for such fixed defense sites — not naval vessels. The goal is on-site energy resilience: firm clean power that keeps critical infrastructure running through grid disruptions.

Resilience through firm on-site generation

A fixed installation with its own firm clean generation is less exposed to grid outages, fuel-supply interruptions, and long transmission lines that can be disrupted. A compact source that runs continuously and is sited on-base provides that resilience without the continuous fuel logistics of diesel generators or the variability of on-site renewables. Aegis is the burner configured for this fixed-site role.

Honest gates apply equally

Aegis inherits the burner's open physics gates without exception: the plug coil is overstressed roughly 3 to 3.9 times at the design bore, making it infeasible as specified; the plug operating regime sits 166 to 830 times beyond any existing device, so it cannot be validated from present data; helium-3 demand runs about 400 times domestic supply per commercial unit; and availability is short of ultra-high-reliability standards. These are stated openly as design-and-simulation findings, never softened, and never translated into economics.

• Aegis houses the burner for fixed defense installations — not ships.
• On-site firm clean power provides resilience against grid disruption.
• Plug-coil overstress (~3-3.9x) makes it infeasible as currently specified.
• Operating-regime, helium-3, and availability gates all remain open.

Design-and-simulation framing. The Kronos machines are today design and simulation studies: the breeder (Hyperion) and the burner (Aegis / MetroVolt). No hardware net-gain has been demonstrated. Breeder construction is planned to begin Q2 2027, with first-of-a-kind (FOAK) first tritium targeted around 2030. Comparisons on this page are qualitative and use only public, defensible figures; nothing here is a performance guarantee.

The defense-resilience concept is genuine; the burner's engineering gates are presented in full, without overclaim.