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SHINE Technologies

Accelerator-based D-T neutron source → fusion

Confinement

Magneto-Inertial

Fuel Cycle

Deuterium-Tritium

Funding

Undisclosed

Timeline

TBD

Investor brief

The only fusion-adjacent company with real revenue today

Executive Summary

SHINE Technologies follows a four-phase business plan: industrial neutron radiography, medical isotope production, nuclear-waste recycling, and ultimately fusion power. Each phase is designed to be cash-flow positive, funding the next. SHINE's accelerator-driven D-T neutron sources are already in commercial service, with Mo-99 (medical isotope) production ramping.

Strategic Thesis

Earn your way to fusion: monetise neutron-source technology along a four-phase path so each step is cash-flow positive.

The Problem

Global electricity demand is entering an unprecedented growth phase driven by AI infrastructure, data centers, transport electrification, industrial decarbonization, water desalination, and advanced manufacturing. Solar suffers intermittency, wind capacity-factor variability, natural gas carbon emissions, conventional nuclear cost and deployment speed, and batteries energy-density and duration limits. The world requires a new source of clean, dispatchable baseload energy. Fusion represents the ultimate energy source — the challenge is making it commercially practical.

Accelerator-Driven D-T Neutron Source

A deuterium ion beam from a high-current accelerator strikes a tritium target, producing a copious flux of 14 MeV neutrons. The same technology that drives medical isotope production today scales toward subcritical fission and eventually fusion energy.

Phase 1 — Industrial Radiography

Commercial neutron radiography services — operating revenue today.

Phase 2 — Medical Isotopes

Mo-99, Lu-177 and other diagnostic and therapeutic isotopes; first commercial Mo-99 production in 2023.

Phase 3 — Chrysalis (Waste Recycling)

Using fusion neutrons to transmute long-lived nuclear waste into shorter-lived isotopes — pilot launched 2024.

Phase 4 — Fusion Power

Long-term roadmap to fusion energy production using the same accelerator and target technology.

Fuel Strategy

Deuterium-Tritium

The 14 MeV neutron from D-T is what drives all four phases.

Product Platform

Neutron Radiography Services

Industrial inspection using fusion-grade neutrons.

Mo-99 Medical Isotopes

Commercial diagnostic and therapeutic isotope production.

Chrysalis

Subcritical waste-transmutation pilot.

Energy Conversion

Category

Thermal — Medical/Industrial (near-term)

Neutronicity

Neutronic (D-T)

Target efficiency

N/A (revenue today via isotopes)

Accelerator-driven D-T neutron sources generate revenue today via medical isotope production (Mo-99) and industrial neutron radiography; thermal-cycle fusion power is the long-term path.

Conversion chain

  1. 1Accelerator-driven D-T fusion neutrons
  2. 2Phase 1: neutrons → Mo-99 production (medical revenue)
  3. 3Phase 2: neutrons → thermal blanket → steam cycle
  4. 4Phase 3: net-power fusion plant

Monetizes neutrons before requiring net energy gain — uniquely capital-light path to commercial fusion infrastructure.

Economic Vision

Earn your way to fusion. Each phase generates revenue that funds the next — a stark contrast to fusion programs that depend entirely on growth-stage venture funding for a decade or more.

Vision

A vertically-integrated fusion company that pays for itself at every stage.

Mission

Make fusion technology economically valuable today, on the path to fusion power.

Engineering Bottlenecks

  • Scaling accelerator current density
  • Long-lifetime D-T targets

Milestone Timeline

  1. 2023

    First commercial Mo-99 production

  2. 2024

    Phase 3 (Chrysalis) waste recycling pilot

The description above reflects SHINE Technologies's publicly stated technology goals, roadmap and architecture. Many elements — particularly net-energy gain at scale, advanced fuel cycles, and grid-relevant economics — remain ambitious objectives that have not yet been demonstrated commercially anywhere in the fusion industry. Forward-looking statements should be treated as engineering targets, not certainties.

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Citations & Sources

Academic & financial rigor
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    The Global Fusion Industry in 2025

    Fusion Industry Association · Jul 2025

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    SHINE Technologies

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    Peer-reviewed plasma physics literature

    Journal of Plasma Physics / Nuclear Fusion