Compact Magneto-Inertial Fusion
We bottle
starfire for
the grid
Helios builds pulsed fusion cores small enough to ship on a truck and honest enough to meter. This is the record of our first pilot campaign — every shot, every number.
The Problem
Clean baseload is the
hardest problem on Earth
Solar sets at dusk. Wind stalls for weeks. Fission fights a forty-year permitting queue. The grid still needs something that burns all night — without burning anything at all.
The dark doldrums
Renewable-heavy grids face multi-week lulls where storage economics collapse. Firm power has to come from somewhere denser than a battery.
Gigaton math
Replacing global thermal generation demands terawatts of new firm capacity. Only fuel with a ten-million-to-one energy density gets there in one lifetime.
Too big to build
Cathedral-scale reactors die in financing. Our answer: a fusion core the size of a shipping container, factory-built, fleet-deployed.
Reactor Console
Mission control, live
A faithful mockup of the operator console our crew watched during campaign PILOT-03. Three panels, one heartbeat.
Confinement Field
Power Train
Shot Log
Engagement Timeline
Eighteen months, four phases
First plasma
Core-1 assembled from factory modules in eleven weeks. First stable plasma achieved on war-room shift 96, four days ahead of the model.
Compression campaign
2,100 liner shots tuned the implosion symmetry from 71% to 94%. Machine-learned field shaping cut drift error by an order of magnitude.
Net-positive shots
Scientific breakeven crossed at shot 3,882. Sustained Q above 2.0 across a full eight-hour operating window by month fourteen.
Grid synchronization
Thermal loop coupled to a 25 MWe turbine. Core-1 exported power to a live substation for 41 consecutive days.
Results
The numbers that survived review
Every figure below was independently audited and published with full shot data. No adjectives — just the meter.
Contact
Put a star
on your grid
We partner with utilities, industrial off-takers, and sovereign energy programs. Briefings run ninety minutes and end at the control room glass.
Request a BriefingPROGRAMS@HELIOS.ENERGY