An Advanced-Fuel Scorecard: Why Kronos Runs Deuterium-Tritium for Breeding and Deuterium-Helium-3 for Power

An advanced-fuel scorecard grading deuterium-tritium, deuterium-deuterium, deuterium-helium-3, and proton-boron-11 on one ruler: reactivity, temperature, neutron fraction, tritium logistics, fuel availability, and demonstrated gain. The Kronos architecture follows the scorecard, not the aneutronic ideal: deuterium-tritium where the product is the neutron and the bred material, deuterium-helium-3 where the product is power. Analysis of public reaction physics; no economics.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-08-28
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22132157
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Chemical Reactions and Isotopes
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An Advanced-Fuel Scorecard: Why Kronos Runs Deuterium-Tritium for Breeding and Deuterium-Helium-3 for Power

Priyanca Ford, G L Kulcinski
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Chemical Reactions and Isotopes
preprint

An Advanced-Fuel Scorecard: Why Kronos Runs Deuterium-Tritium for Breeding and Deuterium-Helium-3 for Power

Priyanca Ford, G L Kulcinski
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Abstract

An advanced-fuel scorecard grading deuterium-tritium, deuterium-deuterium, deuterium-helium-3, and proton-boron-11 on one ruler: reactivity, temperature, neutron fraction, tritium logistics, fuel availability, and demonstrated gain. The Kronos architecture follows the scorecard, not the aneutronic ideal: deuterium-tritium where the product is the neutron and the bred material, deuterium-helium-3 where the product is power. Analysis of public reaction physics; no economics.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Fusion for Energy (ES)
Chemical Reactions and Isotopes
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