Avalanche's Commercial-Scale Neutron Facility
FusionWERX will serve as a first-of-its-kind commercial-scale testing facility for advanced fusion technologies, offering access to private companies, universities, national laboratories, and public-private consortia working to accelerate the path to commercial fusion power.
Read announcementOur compact fusion machine generates a steady stream of high-energy neutrons.
Imaging & Characterization of Metals
Neutrons fly through most metals but scatter in hydrogen-rich pockets, creating a unique X-ray-like map of hydrogen in a sample.
Non-destructive inspection of sealed batteries, turbine blades, and fuel tanks—reveals water, cracks and voids that X-rays miss.
Touchless Material Identification
Neutrons trigger radiation that echoes out of the material at signature energies and angles, providing a fingerprint of its composition.
Remote chemical “fingerprint” for cargo & bomb screening, oil-well logging, ore sorting, detecting special nuclear materials.
Transform material properties
Neutrons get absorbed by atoms, causing reactions that produce important and useful radioisotopes.
Supplies critical medical radioisotopes, power radioisotopes, doped semiconductors, instrumentation.
Fusion & Defense Testing
Neutrons dent & damage the crystal lattice—changing and knocking atoms out of place.
Fusion materials testing, Fission materials testing, electronics reliability testing, advanced ceramics manufacturing.
Capturing Fusion Energy
Each scattering or capture event leaves part of the neutron’s energy behind as heat.
Capturing the energy from fusion neutrons is a key part of realizing abundant and clean D-T fusion power.
