Hyperion's 14 MeV neutron beam-hours are a real product with a real use — materials qualification — but no established market price exists for them anywhere in the world. The programme carries this stream at zero and sweeps it, never banking speculative value.
Fusion-spectrum neutron irradiation is a genuine capability Hyperion provides, but beam-hours for 14 MeV neutron testing are unpriced — there is no market benchmark to value them against. Rather than invent a price, the programme books the stream at zero and treats any future value as upside outside the base case.
Booking an unpriced product at zero is the conservative, honest treatment: it keeps the breeder's case from resting on a number no market has ever set. If a neutron-irradiation market emerges, it is pure upside; the base case does not depend on it.
| Stream | 14 MeV neutron beam-hours |
| Market price | none, worldwide |
| Carried at | zero (swept) |
| Future value | upside, outside base case |
| Treatment | conservative, never banked |