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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.
H. Zhou, Y. Hirooka, N. Ashikawa, T. Muroga, A. Sagara
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 63 | Number 1 | May 2013 | Pages 361-363
doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A16955
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Hydrogen plasma-driven permeation (PDP) experiments have been conducted, using a steady state linear plasma device for the membranes made of reduced activation ferritic steel (F82H) and stainless steel (SUS304). The steady state PDP ratios have been measured to be of the orders of 10-3 and 10-4 at ~220 °C for 1 mm thick F82H and SUS304 membranes, respectively. For F82H, the steady state PDP flux ratio has been found to be inversely proportional to membrane thickness at ~220 °C, indicating that permeation is diffusion-limited. From the temperature dependent PDP data for F82H an activation energy has been evaluated to be ~0.5 eV.