Laurelin
A containerized pulsed deuterium–deuterium fusion reactor program.
The phrase “fusion is always thirty years away” comes from a real history of overpromising on government-scale steady-state machines — large tokamaks, ITER — where complexity and one-of-a-kind procurement do produce decade-long timelines. Pulsed compact-fusion programs have changed that picture in the last fifteen years.
Laurelin
Small machine. Fast iteration. Measured-not-modeled milestones.
Transportable deployment
Forty-foot ISO container envelope. Reactor core and direct-conversion package shipped as a single module rather than civil works.
Container-class · S6–S7Datacenter colocation
Modular siting next to large constant loads. No long-haul transmission. Pulsed-power architecture matches datacenter step-load behavior.
Behind the meter · post-S7Remote and forward operations
Mining, polar, maritime sites. Where grid extension is uneconomic. Single-module installation; minimal civil footprint.
Off-grid · post-S7Microgrid power
Distributed generation without facility-scale construction. Direct electrical takeoff at the protected DC link feeds local distribution.
Distributed · post-S7Forward operating bases
Military installations where logistics tails are vulnerable and fuel resupply is the dominant operational risk. Single-module containerized power, deployable by transport aircraft.
Defense · post-S7