Alpha-E Prime

Alpha-E Prime is built for physics, nuclear engineering, and applied physics programs at research and teaching universities that want to give students direct, hands-on access to real fusion science — without the complexity, cost, or infrastructure requirements of a full research accelerator. If you are the faculty member responsible for your department's laboratory curriculum and you have been looking for a fusion teaching platform your institution can actually purchase and deploy, Alpha-E Prime is that platform.

Your students will detect actual fusion products. Not a simulation.

Alpha-E Prime produces neutrons through deuterium-deuterium (D-D) fusion reactions. Students operate the beam, control the parameters, and use onboard detectors to observe the fusion products directly. They see the spectra, fit the data, and understand why the model predicts what it does — because they generated the data themselves.

This is not a scaled-down version of something industrial. It is the actual science, in a bench-scale form factor that fits in a standard teaching lab.

Students graduate having done fusion physics, not having just read about it.

Alpha-E Prime is equipped with solid-state detectors for energetic charged particles and scintillator detectors for fast neutrons. Students acquire and analyze energy spectra, calibrate detection systems, and work with the same data acquisition logic used in real research contexts. The skill set they develop — designing an experiment, capturing authentic data, analyzing uncertainty, presenting results — is the skill set their graduate programs and employers will expect.

Everything your department needs to teach hands-on fusion.

Alpha-E Prime is delivered as an integrated educational system. It includes structured lab modules developed for the device, instructor guides with experimental context and teaching notes, defined learning outcomes, onsite installation, faculty training, and ongoing remote technical support.

Department-level approval. No license required.

Alpha-E Prime is priced for department-level or faculty-level budgets. There are no per-student fees or per-session licensing costs.

Alpha-E Prime operates at exempt radiation levels at standard teaching lab voltages. No NRC license required in the United States. Compliant with EU radiation safety regulations for exempt sources. Safety documentation suitable for compliance reviews is provided.

*"The successful integration of the Alpha-E system into courses from the bachelor's and master's programs of the Faculty of Physics has shown that it is a valuable platform — not only in terms of modernizing education in plasma physics and nuclear fusion, but also in terms of the practical training of students in the field of cutting-edge technologies.*

— Stiliyan Lishev, Associate Professor, Faculty of Physics, Sofia University

See what fusion teaching looks like with Alpha-E Prime

We'll walk you through a typical lab session, show you the data acquisition workflow, and discuss how Alpha-E Prime fits into your existing curriculum structure.

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