Learn more about the first phase of our fusion technology business: Inspecting Industrial Components.
Basically our approach and the reason it's phased and it goes back to fusion being expensive, not fusion being impossible, but fusion being expensive. Was clear to me that you couldn't make money off the energy from fusion today. Not everybody believes that. So I'm saying clear to me. but there's another thing that's producing a fusion reaction.
Something called a neutron. And it turns out there are applications for that neutron whereby you're doing fusion and you can sell the value of that neutron where it's far more valuable. So, phase one is actually, taking advantage of that neutron for the purpose of testing materials. It's about a million times more valuable, by the way, than the energy produced from the fusion reaction.
So, that neutron is highly valuable and we're using it to make airplanes safer and we're using it to make spacecraft, you know, work better, and to make our defense capabilities continue to work well. So phase one is profitable. So, yes, that's a huge milestone.