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Comparisons & Context
Kronos in Context: ITER and the Big-Science Path
ITER and Kronos are not competitors so much as different theories of how fusion arrives.
- ITER
- Large, proves physics at scale
- Kronos
- Compact, high-field, commercially staged
ITER is a large international experiment establishing burning-plasma physics at scale — invaluable, but big and slow. The compact, high-field approach Kronos takes bets that strong superconductors let a much smaller machine reach useful performance sooner, with a commercial product staged in front of net electricity.
Standing on the databaseKronos's confinement assumptions are anchored to the same multi-machine database ITER helped build; it benefits from that science rather than dismissing it.