The family is sequenced by fuel: Hyperion runs first and produces helium-3 for a decade, and that accumulated supply fuels the burner demonstrator that follows. The order of the products is the fuel cycle expressed as a schedule.
Hyperion produces about 4 kg/yr of net tritium — roughly twice the entire world commercial tritium flow, making it the largest producer worldwide — and that surplus ripens into helium-3 by decay at about 2 kg/yr. That decay stream fuels a ~10 MWe self-fuelled Aegis demonstrator; a commercial unit's 28-54 kg/yr need waits on external supply. The sequence is dictated by the time it takes to accumulate the scarce fuel.
Sequencing this way turns the burners' fuel dependency from an open-ended hope into a supply-limited schedule. The demonstrator's size is set by available fuel, and the breeder's decade of production is what makes any burner build possible at all.
| First | Hyperion (breeder), ~4 kg/yr net T = 2x world flow |
| Duration | ~decade of production |
| Then | ~10 MWe self-fuelled Aegis demonstrator |
| Fuel | ~2 kg/yr breeder decay He-3 |
| Commercial | 28-54 kg/yr, external supply gated |