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Antares achieves zero-power criticality at INL
Leveraging more than $140 million in private capital fundraising, over 322,000 square feet of operational manufacturing space, and multifaceted partnerships with the Departments of Energy and Defense, reactor start-up Antares has become the first company involved in the Reactor Pilot Program to achieve zero-power fueled criticality—a full month ahead of the July 4 deadline set by President Trump’s Executive Order 14301.
This milestone, announced yesterday, was achieved with the company’s Mark-0: a sodium heat-pipe-cooled, TRISO-fueled microreactor. The Mark-0 is a forerunner to the company’s flagship design, which it calls the R1. For Antares, this development represents a key validation of its reactor physics, control systems, and supply chain.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|12:00–2:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Kallie E. Metzger
Session Organizer:
Kenneth J. Geelhood
Staff Producer:
Jessie Vazquez (American Nuclear Society)
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Assessment of Fuel Relocation of Halden 650.5 LOCA Experiment based on Microstructure Observation and FRAPTRAN Prediction
Joosuk Lee (Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety)
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Fabrication and Microstructural Analysis of U6Fe
Thomas C. Kirtley (University of Texas at San Antonio), Elizabeth S. Sooby (University of Texas San Antonio)
A Stochastic Clad Damage Propagation Model for Lead Fast Reactors
Aydin Karahan (Argonne National Laboratory), Michael Epstein (Fauske & Associates, LLC), Sung Jin Lee (Fauske & Associates, LLC), Tanju Sofu (Argonne National Laboratory), Paolo Ferroni (Westinghouse Electric Co. LLC), Jun Liao (Westinghouse Electric Company), Adrian Tentner (Argonne National Laboratory), Anton Moisseytsev (Argonne National Laboratory)
Validation of Extended Oxide Fuel Performance Models of SAS4A
Aydin Karahan (Argonne National Laboratory)
Simulation of Experimental Study on Nuclear Fuel Cracking
Casey Steinman (Idaho State University), Mary Lou Dunzik-Gougar (Idaho State University)
