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.
Authors
- Priyanca Ford (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0395-1752)
- G L Kulcinski
Institutions
- Fusion for Energy (ES)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-08-28
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22132157
- Primary Topic
- Chemical Reactions and Isotopes
- Type
- preprint