Hyperion as a Strategic-Materials Platform: Gain, Tritium Breeding, He-3 Co-Production, and 14 MeV Neutron Output from a Compact Spherical-Tokamak
Priyanca Ford; G L Kulcinski · 2026 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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Abstract
Fusion breeders have historically foundered on two coupled obstacles: net electricity forces a large plasma and a large blanket, and a self-sufficient closed fuel cycle at power-plant scale implies a dangerous standing tritium inventory. Both are consequences of demanding electricity from a device whose neutrons are physically its most valuable output. We present the integrated physics of Hyperion, a compact negative-triangularity spherical-tokamak breeder sized to a strategic-materials mission — tritium, helium-3, and 14 MeV neutrons — and show that once the net-electricity requirement is dro
Abstract by Priyanca Ford; G L Kulcinski, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (2026) — licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22645691