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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.
Xiaoyan Shu, Bo Huang, Jijun Yang, Dongping Liu, Hongyu Fan, Jiali Liao, Yuanyou Yang, Ning Liu, Jun Tang
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 66 | Number 1 | July-August 2014 | Pages 278-282
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-734
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Potassium-doped tungsten (W-K) and pure tungsten samples were fabricated by the spark plasma sintering (SPS) method and irradiated by He plasma. The samples were characterized by relative density, optical microscopy, and atomic force microscope (AFM) and scanning electron microscope (SEM) measurements. Through tuning the sintering parameters, samples with different K content but similar density and size distribution were obtained in this study. It is found that a sample with higher K content shows better resistance to helium irradiation than that containing less K. In addition, both W-K samples show better performance than pure W in low energy He resistance, indicating that the potassium doping is helpful for improving He-plasma-irradiation resistance for tungsten-based materials.