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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.
Qi Liang Lu, Li Qun Shi, and Jian Guo Wan
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 65 | Number 3 | May 2014 | Pages 347-354
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-648
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The structure and properties of CaF2-type δ structure of helium-containing zirconium hydrides were investigated using density functional theory. The properties of this material vary with hydrogen and helium concentrations. Hydrogen has a significant effect on the behavior of helium. The occupied sites of He atoms strongly depend on the hydrogen concentration. The structures and formation mechanisms of helium clusters vary with hydrogen concentration at a high helium content. The embedding energies of He atoms mainly result from interactions between helium and zirconium atoms. However, H-He interactions significantly contribute to the embedding energies. Variations in lattice volume expansion and bulk modulus were also investigated.