Lando: Built to Learn Faster
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Every machine we build is a step forward, not just in scale, but in how quickly we can learn. LANDO is our next fusion machine: a larger, faster, cleaner, higher-output machine designed to push us into new operating regimes and accelerate the path toward real fusion performance.
Our previous iteration, 'Jyn,' helped us prove key concepts. LANDO was built to refine them.
With 4x the plasma volume, faster spin-up, higher-purity performance, and licensing for high-neutron-flux applications, LANDO expands what we can test and how quickly we can learn from it.
One of our core beliefs is that fusion development advances through rapid cycles of designing, building, testing, learning, and iterating on real hardware.
We believe the faster we can move from idea → experiment → data → redesign, the faster we can improve both the science and the engineering.
Fusion progress depends on asking sharper questions and building the hardware capable of answering them.
Traditional fusion programs are often massive, slow-moving facilities optimized around a single experiment designed years earlier. LANDO is the opposite approach. It was designed to be modified, reconfigured, pushed hard, rebuilt, and improved quickly.
LANDO was designed to help us understand how cleaner plasma behaves, how faster startup cycles change experimentation, how more plasma affects performance, and how the system operates at higher neutron output.
A larger, more stable plasma regime and the ability to push into new operating territory.
Scale changes what we can access. Jyn, LANDO gives us more room to test plasma behavior, improve confinement, and study regimes that smaller machines cannot reach.
Cleaner plasma, reduced impurities, and more reliable experimental data.
Impurities create noise. LANDO was designed to reduce contamination so we can better understand what is happening inside the plasma and make cleaner comparisons between tests.
Shorter startup times, faster experiments, and tighter feedback loops.
The faster we can spin up plasma, the faster we can test, learn, and improve. LANDO is built to reduce time between experiments and increase the rate of learning.
Every subsystem in LANDO reflects lessons learned from operating earlier machines. It is not a one-off experiment built in isolation. It is part of an ongoing development cycle where each machine builds directly on the operational knowledge of the last.
Licensed to operate at up to 10,000,000,000 neutrons per second.
High neutron flux moves LANDO closer to real fusion operating conditions. It allows us to test performance, diagnostics, materials, and safety systems in a more demanding environment.
Lando is more than a machine—it is part of a system for accelerating progress.
Each improvement compounds: cleaner plasma improves data quality. Faster spin-up increases test velocity. More plasma expands the operating regime. Higher neutron flux brings experiments closer to real fusion conditions.
Together, these advances help us learn faster with every run.
