Figures on this page are engineering design targets and reference-architecture values, not measured results from operating hardware. They state what the design is being engineered to achieve. Verified performance data will replace them as systems are built and tested. Nothing here should be relied upon as a performance warranty.
Blanket recovery
Bred tritium is stripped from the blanket carrier and routed to separation. Recovery fraction determines whether the plant is fuel-positive over its cycle.
Cryogenic distillation
Hydrogen isotopes are separated by cryogenic distillation. Column inventory is minimised deliberately — inventory is both a cost and a licensing quantity.
Metal-hydride beds
Inventory is held in solid metal-hydride form rather than as pressurised gas, reducing the consequence of a containment breach.
Instrumented transfers
Every transfer point is metered and logged with provenance. Accountancy is a licensing obligation and the records must survive audit years later.
Interfaces the breeding blanket, the vacuum system exhaust, and the fuelling system. All inventory movements are reported to the supervisory layer with append-only provenance records suitable for regulatory review.
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