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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.
E. Wakai, H. Kondo, T. Kanemura, T. Furukawa, Y. Hirakawa, K. Watanabe, M. Ida, Y. Ito, S. Niitsuma, Y. Edao, K. Fujishiro, K. Nakaniwa, E. Hoashi, H. Horiike, H. Serizawa, Y. Kawahito, S. Fukada, Y. Sugie, A. Suzuki, J. Yagi, Y. Tsuji, K. Furuya, F. Groeschel, J. Knaster, G. Micchiche, A. Ibarra, R. Heidinger, F. Nitti, M. Sugimoto
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 66 | Number 1 | July-August 2014 | Pages 46-56
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-770
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EVEDA Lithium Test Loop (ELTL) has been designed and constructed, has operated a liquid lithium flow test facility with the world's highest flow rate and has succeeded in generating a 100-mm-wide and 25-mm-thick free-surface lithium flow along a concave back plate steadily at a high speed of 20 m/s at 300°C for the first time in the world. This result will greatly advance the development of an accelerator-based neutron source to high energy and high density, one of the key objectives of the fusion reactor materials development under the BA (Broader Approach) Activities. Recent related engineering validation and engineering design of the lithium facility has been evaluated.