How does Kronos handle disruptions?

Two answers, one per machine. The breeder manages disruptions with detection and mitigation and a conservative margin. The burner doesn't manage them at all — it can't have one.

Breeder

Conservative q₉₅ margin + detection + mitigation

Burner

No plasma current → no disruption

Advantage

An entire tokamak failure mode removed

Still open

The burner's plug-density requirement

For the breeder, disruption handling is standard tokamak practice: run a conservative stability margin, detect precursors early, and mitigate with rapid impurity injection to spread the energy safely if a disruption begins. It is a solved class of engineering, applied conservatively.

For the burner, the honest answer is more striking: there is nothing to handle. With no plasma current and open field lines, the machine cannot disrupt — no current quench, no runaways. The burner trades this whole problem for a different one, the plug-density requirement.