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The Kronos Fusion Energy Podcast

Author: Priyanca Ford

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Fusion is the process that powers the sun — and getting it to power the grid is one of the hardest, most important engineering challenges of our time. On The Kronos Fusion Energy Podcast, founder and CEO Priyanca Ford sits down with the scientists, engineers, and pioneers who have spent their careers chasing that goal, for candid, in-depth conversations about the physics, the machines, and the people behind clean fusion energy.

Each episode is a real conversation — not a lecture. Priyanca brings the curiosity of a builder and the questions of a founder actually working to commercialize fusion, and her guests bring decades of hard-won experience from the frontlines of the field: high-field superconducting magnets, plasma confinement and stability, advanced materials that can survive a reactor's extreme environment, direct energy conversion, helium-3 and advanced fuels, cryogenics, tritium and the fuel cycle, disruption and reliability, digital twins and high-performance computing, and the long road from a promising design to a power plant that can plug into the grid.

Guests include some of the most respected names in fusion and adjacent sciences — veterans and active researchers from MIT, ITER, Oak Ridge, CERN, and the national laboratories; magnet designers, materials scientists, plasma physicists, nuclear-safety experts, superconductor engineers, and more. Together they trace how the field got here, where the genuine hard problems still lie, and what it will actually take to make compact, low-neutron fusion a commercial reality.

Along the way, the show pulls back the curtain on Kronos Fusion Energy's own work — the company's pursuit of a compact, high-field, low-neutron generator designed for commercial and mission-critical power — as well as the broader race to bring fusion out of the lab and into the world. Expect honest talk about what's proven and what isn't, why fusion is suddenly moving so fast, and why this generation may be the one that finally delivers it.

Whether you're a fusion insider, an engineer, an investor, a student deciding where to point your career, or simply someone who believes the world needs abundant clean energy, this is your seat at the table with the people building the future of power — one conversation at a time.

New episodes feature leading voices in fusion science, magnet and materials engineering, plasma physics, and energy strategy. Hosted by Priyanca Ford, founder & CEO of Kronos Fusion Energy.

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Dr. Joseph Minervini of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center joins Priyanca Ford for a masterclass in the technology at the heart of magnetic confinement fusion. They cover why high-temperature superconductors like REBCO changed the game, the twin challenges of quench protection and structural stress, why tokamaks are inherently pulsed, and hard-won lessons from decades on ITER and the world’s largest superconducting magnet systems.
Dr. Nitendra Singh, a nuclear engineer focused on advanced fuel cycles and fusion policy, joins Priyanca Ford for a clear-eyed look at what stands between today’s experiments and commercial fusion. They dig into the real complexity of tritium breeding and neutron economics, why levelized-cost comparisons are so slippery this early, the honest engineering timelines that regulators and power grids actually allow, and why building a skilled global workforce may be the field’s most underrated challenge.
Dr. Guido Van Oost of Ghent University joins Priyanca Ford for a half-century view of magnetic confinement fusion. They discuss the power of international collaboration, why training the next generation of fusion engineers may be the field’s most important gap, the role of irradiation facilities like MYRRHA in qualifying materials, and where realistic commercialization timelines actually land.
Dr. Curtis Smith of MIT, a leading authority on probabilistic risk assessment, joins Priyanca Ford to explore why many now call this a golden age of nuclear energy. They discuss what fusion can learn from decades of fission safety engineering, why regulators are treating fusion systems more like particle accelerators, and how advanced modeling, AI, and heat-storage technology could reshape clean-energy systems.
Three pioneers of fusion science and engineering join Priyanca Ford: magnet designers Dr. Bob Weggel and Dr. Carl Weggel, whose work at MIT’s Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory pushed the limits of high-field magnets, and Dr. Gerald Kulcinski, a founding voice of advanced low-neutron fusion fuels and the helium-3 fuel cycle. Together they trace the history of high-field magnet development, the promise of lunar helium-3, and why direct energy conversion could reshape how fusion makes power.
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