Nuclear energy
using
ultrafast lasers.
The Cortex fusion energy solution.
Only Cortex uses ultrafast lasers, maximizing proven quantum physics to provide commercializable, ongoing fusion energy.
The result is a compact, high-repetition-rate fusion source that bypasses the hydrodynamic instabilities, facility scale, and target cost of inertial confinement fusion.
Cortex hybrid fusion-fission reactor.
Only Cortex uses ultrafast lasers to drive a subcritical fission blanket with fusion neutrons, yielding nuclear energy without a self-sustaining chain reaction. The reactor cannot melt down because it cannot sustain criticality — remove the neutron source, and the reaction stops.
This architecture breeds and burns fuel inside the reactor, reducing fuel costs and waste, and qualifies for an entirely different regulatory pathway — without evacuation zones, and compatible with co-location at industrial sites.
Cortex laser uranium enrichment technology.
Only Cortex uses ultrafast lasers in a fundamentally different approach to uranium enrichment — commodity broadband lasers, high assays in a single pass, and throughput sufficient to satisfy the entire national demand for HALEU as well as LEU from a single facility.
Previous attempts at using lasers for uranium enrichment, specifically AVLIS, MLIS, SILEX, and CRISLA, failed because of their reliance on expensive narrowband lasers; whereas Cortex makes laser enrichment viable using broadband lasers with our proprietary technology.
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Award-winning team using ultrafast lasers to bring nuclear energy to the grid.
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