About the show
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.
