Short: Kronos Fusion Energy is a design and validation-stage fusion company building compact, high-field, low-neutron generators with direct energy conversion — a breeder that makes fuel and materials (tritium, helium-3, 14 MeV neutrons) and a burner for firm clean power.
Long: Kronos treats fusion as an engineering and commercialization problem to be de-risked with discipline. The company designs and validates its machines digitally first, publishes its work openly — including the physics gates that are not yet solved — and builds the breeder before the burner so a fuel and materials supply exists before the power plant needs it. The founding and advisory team spans fusion science, superconducting magnets, materials, high-performance computing, national security, and operations.
Fast facts
Founded
Kronos Fusion Energy, Inc.
Headquarters
Los Angeles, California
Founder & CEO
Priyanca Iyengar Ford
What we build
Compact, high-field, low-neutron fusion generators with direct energy conversion
Breeder — Hyperion
D–T spherical tokamak; makes tritium, helium-3, and 14 MeV neutrons
Burner — Aegis / MetroVolt
D–³He tandem mirror; low-neutron (small neutron fraction); direct energy conversion
Stage
Timeline
Construction from Q2 2027 · first-of-a-kind first tritium ~2030 · test burner ~2032 · commercial fleet ~2036
Approach
Simulation-first, open-science, honest about the gates
Open science & the record
All design work is published, CC BY, with reproducible data: