Public Fusion Programmes

The megaprojects and national labs whose science the whole field — including Kronos — builds on.

Role

Foundational science

Public programmes — the ITER project, national laboratories, and major devices like JET, W7-X, NSTX and NIF — establish the physics database and validated codes the entire field relies on. They are slow and large but foundational.

Kronos anchors its assumptions (confinement scaling, magnet fields, reaction rates) to this public science rather than to first-principles optimism — benefiting from it rather than dismissing it.