Climate & Environmentpreprint2026-08-23

Macro-Systemic Theoretical Extension (Variant N) (Civil Thermal Fission, Thorium MSRs & Controlled Magnetic Fusion)

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Abstract

This document serves as the theoretical culmination and extreme-boundary application of the cyber-physical control principles developed throughout the author's prior works. The control architecture—initially introduced for sub-seafloor/subsurface phase transitions in the original Hydra-Flux Technical Memorandum, structurally formalized in the Hydra-Flux Master Compendium, and universally generalized in the Abstraction Note (The Universal Cyber-Physical State Machine)—is hereby extended beyond geological media. By projecting the invariant meta-algorithm (States S0 to S4) and its asynchronous exception grammar (Stop, Throttle, Flush, Isolate, Retreat) onto fluid-core nuclear fission (Thorium Molten Salt Reactors) and magnetically confined fusion plasmas (Tokamaks and Stellarators), this theoretical extension establishes a unified formal logic for the autonomous management of extreme continuous unstable media. It explicitly defines the physical and temporal boundaries of algorithmic control, demonstrating that the preservation of structural integrity fundamentally obeys the same thermodynamic and cybernetic rules, whether managing a dissociating methane hydrate front in unconsolidated sediments or preventing a magnetohydrodynamic disruption in a 100-million-degree plasma.

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View paper (DOI)Open access versionOpenAlexZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)Published 2026-08-23

Authors: O. Peyrol