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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.
Xuejiao Xiao, Chang Nyung Kim
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 66 | Number 3 | November 2014 | Pages 414-425
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-806
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
In this study, three-dimensional liquid-metal magnetohydrodynamic flows in a rectangular hairpin duct with parallel inflow and outflow channels, placed under uniform magnetic fields, are analyzed based on a computational fluid dynamics method. Detailed information on flow velocity, pressure, current, and electric potential in magnetohydrodynamic duct flows is predicted. In the side layers of the inflow and outflow channels, higher velocities are observed, and M-shaped velocity profiles are presented. In the turning segment, the velocity distribution is very complex, yielding complicated induced current therein. The electromagnetic characteristics of the complicated liquid-metal flows are examined in terms of the electromotive and electric-field components of the current. The pressure almost linearly decreases along the main flow direction, except for in the turning segment. Cases with different Hartmann numbers are examined, and the larger the Hartmann number is, the larger the pressure drop is. However, the nondimensional pressure gradient is smaller in cases of larger Hartmann numbers.