Langtry: Avalanche has achieved one-week idea-to-test hardware cycles
Robin Langtry · Building the World’s Smallest Fusion Reactor | Robin Langtry on TBPN · Apr 26, 2025 · at 13:51
Robin Langtry, CEO of Avalanche Fusion, explains how rapid hardware prototyping principles from aerospace are applied to compact nuclear fusion development.
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“We said at the beginning of Avalanche that we want a physicist to be able to go from, like, I have an idea, to testing it in a week, and we've actually achieved that a couple times. Like, someone had an idea on Monday, they worked with the mechanical team to design it, And then we fabbed it on, you know, Wednesday, Thursday, broke vacuum on the machine, implemented it, pumped out over the weekend, and then off we were going testing on Monday.”
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