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Topic
The tritium supply gap.
Tritium decays at 5.5%/yr against one aging production route — and every fusion company will need it to start. Kronos is sized to that national requirement.
The problem
A material that must be remade every year.
01
Continuous decay
5.5% of inventory is lost annually — a stockpile that must be continuously replenished.
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One aging route
Domestic production hangs on a single, aging path.
03
A fusion startup crunch
Every D–T effort needs startup tritium; demand is set to outrun supply.
HYPERION adds a purpose-built domestic source — ~1.7 kg/yr demonstrated toward a 4 kg/yr national-duty target.
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Conceptual design and simulation study; the integrated Kronos machines are not yet built, and certain results are requirement-class. No financial figures are published on this site.