Neutron Services Offtake
The 14 MeV flux is offered as in-machine irradiation and activation service — materials qualification and target activation — delivered as campaigns.
Selling access to the flux
Not every product leaves the machine as a shipped isotope. The 14 MeV neutron flux itself is offered as a service: users place test articles or activation targets in instrumented irradiation positions and receive a controlled, documented dose. This is neutron-services offtake.
Two service modes
- Materials qualification: irradiate structural and functional materials to target dpa/fluence, then return them for post-irradiation examination
- Activation: irradiate chosen targets to transmute them into research or feedstock isotopes
Both are delivered as campaigns with defined flux positions, target fluence, controlled temperature, and dosimetry so the delivered dose is measured rather than assumed. Activated and tritiated samples are handled under the same accountancy and containment framework as the shipped isotope products.
Capacity is budget-limited
Service flux competes directly with breeding for the finite neutron budget, so the machine allocates a bounded fraction to services while protecting the tritium mission. The available service volume is therefore a design-and-simulation allocation, finalized as the machine is engineered and confirmed once it operates at FOAK.
Why it is uniquely valuable
There is no other running D–T source offering genuine 14 MeV irradiation in usable quantity, which is what makes this service distinctive for fusion materials qualification. This page describes the service and its users only, with no commercial terms stated, per policy.
This page describes a design-and-simulation study, not a built machine. Construction begins Q2 2027; first-of-a-kind (FOAK) first tritium is targeted near 2030. No net-gain claim is made before FOAK.