ASTRA reactor
The ASTRA (Autonomous Spherical Torus Reactor Assembly) is a gas-cooled magnetized target thermonuclear fusion reactor, developed for Neogen by the Experimental Plasma Lab at Jordan Valley Institute of Technology (JVIT), with initial research & development commencing in 1991 and final concept testing, prototype development and troubleshooting stages spanning ca. 2017–21.
The second fully developed (and first commercially available) ASTRA unit was delivered 10 March 2020 to Neogen, which installed it as the first operational reactor of the newly completed New Canaan Fusion Station in Jisr el-Majami, Marj ibn Amer District, Palestine. From mid-March to late May, following installation of the first ASTRA unit, final system testing and troubleshooting was conducted, completed virtually without incident, and in efficiently and timely enough a manner to warrant installation of the three remaining reactor units required for the power station's completion according to design, which employed four ASTRA units. Upon delivery and installation of the three additional ASTRA units ca. 5–15 June 2021, New Canaan Fusion Station finalised preparations, with commercial operations commencing 20 December 2021.
ASTRA is the world's only operational fusion reactor technology, five units of which have been produced to date—the original reactor built as the ultimate, successful result of the technology's scientific development, and the four commercially manufactured and installed units employed by New Canaan Fusion Station.
Due to top-level orders from the Government of the Arab Union, including the president, the ASTRA reactor is to remain absolutely top secret, level 1 of the 1 to 10 secrecy levels, with 10 being the lowest possible necessity for secrecy and 1 being absolutely top secret, with secrecy so important that all persons working on or knowledgeable about the level 1 secret (in this case the ASTRA reactor) being subject to complete secrecy; even the slightest bit of information being leaked likely leading to extensive prison time (think 15 to 25 years) and round-the-clock surveillance on them by the Emni for the rest of their life. The only national government project which comes remotely close to this level of government secrecy is that of the
